Source: ET via Wasim Sr
The summer college, which was the brainchild of Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, is organised every year since 1976 by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
“Dr Salam used to assign two different projects to the local scientists, one applied and one formal, so they do not forget that they are part of society.”
The ICTP has supported the college throughout the past four decades, Quevedo added.
“I am sure Prof Salam would have been very proud to see how his younger fellow scientists have been able to continue his efforts and have been able to put Pakistan at high scientific level,” Quevedo said.
Dr Ansar Parvez, chairman of the PAEC, said Pakistan has a crop of talented young scientists who need to be facilitated.
“We need to strengthen our scientific infrastructure to provide them level playing field,” Parvez said. “Of course, economic prosperity and reduction in poverty can be achieved through education”