
30/01/2025
"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."
As a 14-year-old boy, science genius Abdus Salam gained the highest marks ever recorded for the Matriculation Examination at the University of the Punjab in the early 1940s. When he cycled home from Lahore the whole town welcomed him.
In 1949, Salam was awarded a scholarship to study a double bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Cambridge. In 1950 he received the Smith’s Prize from the University of Cambridge for the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to physics.
During his career in science, Salam presented many scientific breakthroughs and innovative theories such as the Pati–Salam model, the Grand Unified Theory and research on supersymmetry.
In 1979, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg. They made significant contributions to the electroweak unification theory.
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