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Abdus Salam

Abdus SalamBorn: 29-Jan-1926
Birthplace: Jhang Maghiana, Punjab, India
Died: 21-Nov-1996
Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Muslim [1]
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Pakistan
Executive summary: Electroweak Theory

Salam was an Ahmadiyya Muslim.


[1] Member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ("Ahmadi Muslims", also sometimes referred to as "Qadiani"). This sect believes that there may arrive a prophet after Muhammad. The Pakistani government has defined those holding such beliefs as non-Muslim. Because of this inconvenient fact, the first Nobel Laureate from Pakistan has never been honored by his own country.

Father: (education official)
Wife: (wife #1, four children)
Wife: (wife #2, one child)

    University: MA, Government College, University of the Punjab, Lahore (1946)
    University:
BA, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1949)
    University: PhD, Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University (1952)
    Professor: Government College, University of the Punjab, Lahore (1951-54)
    Professor: Cambridge University (1954-57)
    Professor: Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London (1957-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1979 (with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow)
    Hughes Medal 1964
    Matteucci Medal 1978
    Royal Medal 1978
    Copley Medal 1990
    Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    Royal Society


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