Source: The Asian Age Public interest in Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s legendary theoretical physicist, has surged with the worldwide release of Salam, The First ****** Nobel Laureate, a Netflix documentary. While the movie dwells on his scientific achievements — and even more upon his deep personal disappointments — absent is any […]
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — By voting last week to revoke an honor bestowed on the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in science, Pakistan’s National […]
NA calls for naming QAU physics dept after Khazini DAWN.COM A ReporterMay 04, 2018,Facebook Count30 Twitter Share 0 ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) physics department to be named after Abu al-Fath Abd-al Rehman Mansour-al-Khazini. The resolution was signed by […]
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy Updated February 17, 2018 The writer teaches physics and mathematics in Lahore and Islamabad. SRINIVISAN Ramanujan (1887-1920) and Muhammad Abdus Salam (1926-1996), two intellectual giants of the 20th century, were born in the same corner of the world. Of humble origin and educated in local schools, they […]
Dr. Abdus Salam, 29 January 1926- 21 November 1996 Listen to short audio clip of Dr Salam when he was talking to AMJ members in Ottawa 1982. NayaDaur Happy birthday to Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel prize winner. Here is a rare recording of Dr Salam from a […]
https://jang.com.pk/print/422413-mukhtar-masood-doctor-abdus-salaam-or-punjabi-zabaan مختار مسعود، ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام اور پنجابی زبان By Zafar Mahmood- this article recounts how Punjab government asked Dr Salam to devise science education policy for the province. Accordingly an education institution like MIT – Lahore Institute of Technology was planned. This whole exercise was not advertised due to religious […]
Dr Abdus Salam’s bust unveiled at IAEA Headquarters Naveed SiddiquiSeptember 20, 2017 DAWN.COM A bust of Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr Abdus Salam was unveiled at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters in Vienna on Wednesday by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, a Foreign Office (FO) handout said today. […]
When Riazuddin—that was his full name—died in September at age 82 in Islamabad, international science organizations extolled his contributions to high-energy physics. But in Pakistan, except for a few newspaper lines and a small reference held a month later at Quaid-e-Azam University, where he had taught for decades, his passing […]
PUBLISHED 2 DAYS AGO https://www.dawn.com/news/1311473 A star is born Abdus Salam’s birth certificate. — ICTP Photo Library On the Jan 29, 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam — ‘servant of peace’. I was born […]
ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام کی خدمات کا اعتراف December 7, 2016 1:22 am · 0 comments http://niazamana.com/2016/12/services-of-dr-salam-to-pakistan/ زکریا ورک ۔ ٹورنٹو وزیر اعظم پاکستان جناب نواز شریف کی طرف سے جاری کردے ایک سرکاری اعلامیے کے مطابق وزیر اعظم نے حکم دیا ہے کہ قائد اعظم یونیورسٹی اسلام آباد میں واقع نیشنل سینٹر […]
Source: The Guardian By Jon Boone Nawaz Sharif orders university to name institution after the Nobel-winning physicist Abdus Salam, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community Pakistan’s prime minister has […]
Source: Dawn Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved, in principle, the renaming of Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) physics department to the Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics on Monday, according to a Press Information Department (PID) statement. The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training was directed to draw up a formal summary […]
LAHORE: By Rana Tanveer Published: November 24, 2016 tribune.com.pk Religious beliefs are personal and must not be used against anyone. While Dr Abdus Salam brought the name of Pakistan to the international stage, Pakistanis do not consider him one of their countrymen because of his beliefs. These views were expressed by […]
My Reminiscences of Professor Abdus Salam by Hardev Singh Virk Visiting Professor, SGGS World University, Fatehgarh Sahib-140406, India Email: hardevsingh.virk@gmail.com In summer of 1972, after submission of my doctoral thesis in Marie & Pierre Curie University of Paris, I took a train to Sarajevo in Bosnia (Yugoslavia) to spend my holidays […]
Professor Abdus Salam interviewed on PTV in 1989 by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy. Talks about his theory predicting Higgs particle http://eacpe.org/portfolio/a-rare-clip-prof-abdus-salam-interviewed-on-ptv-in-1989/
Dr. Abdus Salam 29th January 1926 died: 21 November 1996 Singapore: plans are underway to hold a grand meeting on the 90th birthday of Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam 29th January 2016. What is unique about this meeting is that there will be 4 Nobel Laureate speakers, and many mother […]
International Infectious Disease Conference held under Dr. Abdus Salam Research Forum Rabwah (Pakistan): daily al-Fazl, 10th December 2015, page 11 An international conference and workshop was held in Rabwah under the auspices of Abdus Salam Research Forum entitled Infection Diseases. It was organized by Department of Education […]
In 1980 Prof. Abdus Salam visited Madison, Wisconsin USA where he delivered a lecture at the University. Zakaria Virk was fortunate to meet him there with his family. subsequently Prof. Salam travelled to New York. Zakaria Virk approached the owner of Toronto Indian program Mr. Lali Vij to have Prof. […]
PART ONE: How great a scientist was Abdus Salam? Some vilify him, others praise him excessively. Only facts can tell the truth. Click here to watch it in English and here in Urdu. PART TWO: Abdus Salam often said his science was inspired by the Quran. So what inspired his atheist contemporary, Steven Weinberg?Click here to watch […]
Dawn.com: by Faraz Talat — You were mocked and alienated by your countrymen, when you did nothing wrong. I know something of that. Disclaimer: the blog post below is an imagining of what Dr Abdus Salam would convey to Malala today Dear Malala, Despite all that occurred, I’d always lugged […]