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Abdus Salam

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Also known as Mohammad Abdus Salam, Muhammad Abdus Salam

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

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Abdus Salam (1926–1996) was a physicist and mathematician whose work focused on theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics and was recognized in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His academic output included 512 works, with a citation count of 20,954 and an h-index of 57.

Salam’s published works include *Supergravities in diverse dimensions* and *Selected Papers of Abdus Salam*. Other titles associated with him are *Güneyin gelişmesinde bilim, teknoloji ve bilim eğitimi üzerine notlar* and *Science, technologie et éducation pour le développement du sud*. He had an Erdős number of 3 and was the parent of six children.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1926
Works
23

Top works

  • Güneyin gelişmesinde bilim, teknoloji ve bilim eğitimi üzerine notlar
  • Supergravities in diverse dimensions
  • Science, technologie et éducation pour le développement du sud
  • Guldasta-ĕ maẓāmīn va inshā-pardāzī; yaʻnī, jis meṅ usūl-i mazmūn-nigārī
  • Selected Papers of Abdus Salam

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Senegal

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
11

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

57h-index
Works
512
Cited by
20,954
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6251-9575

Research areas

PhysicsMathematicsMathematical physicsTheoretical physicsQuantum mechanics

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,996x

  2. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,004x

  3. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,187x

  4. Review of Particle Physics

    · 2018 · cited 5,728x

  5. Review of Particle Physics

    · 2012 · cited 5,099x

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Quotes

  • “By generalization of methods developed by Kamefuchi, O'Raifeartaigh, and Salam, conditions for renormalizability of general gauge theories of massive vector mesons are derived. ... It is shown that all theories based on simple Lie groups (with the one exception of the neutral vector meson theory in interaction with a conserved current) are unrenormalizable.”
  • “In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says: "Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary."This in effect is, the faith of all physicists; the deeper we seek, the more is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement for our gaze.”
  • “The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1979

    “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”

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Encyclopedic overview

Mohammad Abdus Salam (/sæˈlæm/; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". He was the first Pakistani, first Muslim scientist, and second person from any Muslim country (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt) to win a Nobel Prize.

Salam was scientific advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology in Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in the development of the country's science infrastructure. Salam contributed to numerous developments in theoretical and particle physics in Pakistan. He was the founding director of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), and responsible for the establishment of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG). For this, he is viewed as the "scientific father" of this program. In 1974, Abdus Salam departed from his country in protest after the Parliament of Pakistan unanimously passed a parliamentary bill declaring members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, to which Salam belonged, non-Muslim.

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