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Abdus Salam

1926 - 1996

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Mohammad Abdus Salam (; pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first scientist from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdus Salam is the 258th most popular physicist (down from 214th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 14th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Physicist.

Abdus Salam is most famous for being the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abdus Salam ranks 258 out of 851. Before him are Benjamin Thompson, Leon M. Lederman, John L. Hall, John Archibald Wheeler, Igor Kurchatov, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. After him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, Julian Schwinger, Toshihide Maskawa, Carlo Rubbia, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Abdus Salam ranks 52. Before him are Mel Brooks, Louise Hay, Aaron Klug, Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, and Richard Crenna. After him are Maria Schell, Clifford Geertz, George Habash, Tony Bennett, Vivian Maier, and John G. Kemeny. Among people deceased in 1996, Abdus Salam ranks 34. Before him are Magda Schneider, William Vickrey, René Clément, Artur Axmann, Solomon Asch, and Ademir de Menezes. After him are Claudette Colbert, Lars Ahlfors, Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Fujiko Fujio, and Masaki Kobayashi.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Abdus Salam ranks 23 out of 217. Before him are Arif Alvi (1949), Vasubandhu (400), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Asanga (300), and Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580). After him are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Dev Anand (1923), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), Aga Khan III (1877), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), and Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Pakistan

Among physicists born in Pakistan, Abdus Salam ranks 2. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910). After him are Yash Pal (1926), and Nergis Mavalvala (1968).

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