biography
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| (1926–96)
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Jhang Maghiana, C Pakistan. He studied at Punjab University and Cambridge, and became professor of mathematics at the Government College of Lahore and at Punjab University (1951–4). He lectured at Cambridge (1954–6), and became professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College, London (1957), and founder-director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (1964), renamed the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics following his death. In 1979 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow for their theory combining both the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles; their predictions were confirmed experimentally in the 1970s and 1980s. |
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