[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