Daily Times: By Syeda Sultana Rizvi: For Dr Salam, religion did not occupy a separate compartment of his life; it was inseparable from his work and family life
Initially, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) focused only on Theoretical Physics but after a decade, a wider range was included with emphasis on branches of physics more relevant to the needs of the developing countries. The physics of condensed matter, plasma physics, the physics of the oceans and the earth, applicable mathematics; physics of technology, of natural resources were some of those subjects. In his interview to Dr Robert Walgate in 1976 for the reputed magazine New Scientist, Dr Salam said, “We do post PhD work, not with an eye to industrial laboratories — there are none in most of our countries — but the hope is that if you have teachers in the universities who have worked, for example, in solid state physics, then the next generation at least will have an orientation which is much more industrial.”
In its new strategic plan, the ICTP announced three new research areas it will pursue in fields related to existing ones, which could have significant interdisciplinary research potential, especially in their possible impact on developing countries. Those fields are energy and sustainability, quantitative biology, and computing sciences.
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I read both parts of this article and found it to be a great addition to Dr Salam’s legacy, a very heart warming & candid review by Dr Rizvi.
Thank you TMT for posting this article, I hope people gleaned some good information from it.