Abdus Salam (1926-1996)

Awarded the Prize “for his contributions to the theory of the unified weak electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.”

Pakistani physicist. Salam was born in Punjab in Pakistan on January 29, 1926. He attended Punjab University Cambridge University where he received his Ph.D. in 1952. From 1951 to 1954 he was Professor at the Government College of Lahore, Head of the Mathematics Department of Punjab University. He worked at Cambridge University later became Professor of the Imperial College of Science Technology, London. He was the first director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics a member of many academies of sciences throughout the world. Salam died on November 21, 1996 in Oxford, Engl.