Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam (January 29th 1926 - November 21st 1996), Pakistani Physicist, received the Nobel Prize of physics in 1979 for its work on the électrofaible Interaction, synthesis of the electromagnetism and the weak Interaction.

Born with Jhang Sadar (India, today with the Pakistan), he studies with the Government College with Lahore, and obtains in 1952, a doctorate in mathematics and physics of the Université of Cambridge. He teaches in these establishments, then in 1957, is professor of Theoretical physics to the Imperial College of London. In 1964, he becomes director of the international Center of theoretical physics of Trieste, lately created. This same year, he is prize winner of the Médaille Hughes. In 1967, with the physicist states-unien Steven Weinberg, Salam proposes a theory making it possible to unify the electromagnetic and weak interactions between elementary particles, theory which will be confirmed by the experiment. Salam will be thus the first Moslem to obtain the Nobel Prize of physics in 1979, jointly with the American physicists Sheldon Lee Glashow and Weinberg.

Distinctions

External bonds

  • Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of physique 1979
  • Biography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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