Mohammad Abdus Salam Facts
Mohammad Abdus Salam Facts
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| Abdus Salam was born into a religious family in the Punjab State. |
| His grandfather was a religious scholar and his father was an officer in the Department of Education. |
| At 14 Salam scored the highest marks ever recorded on the entrance exam and won a full scholarship to the Government College University of Lahore. |
| In 1944 he received a BA in mathematics and in 1946 he received his MA. |
| He was awarded a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge University and in 1950 he received the Smith's Prize which is awarded for the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to physics. |
| His doctoral thesis was on fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics and garnered him the Adams Prize. |
| His solution for the renormalization of meson theory attracted the attention of Bethe and Oppenheimer. |
| He received his PhD in 1951 and returned to Punjab as a professor at the Government College University. |
| In 1954 he became a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and that same year, accepted a post at Cambridge University as professor of mathematics. |
| In 1957 he and Paul Matthews created the department of theoretical physics at Imperial College. |
| In 1959 he took a fellowship at Princeton University where he presented his paper on neutrinos to J. Robert Oppenheimer. |
| He studied quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory and its extension into particle physics. |
| In his work with neutrinos he introduced chiral symmetry which played a crucial role in development of the theory of electroweak interactions. |
| Salam introduced the Higgs bosons and predicted the existence of proton decay. |
| In 1963 he published his work on the vector meson and in 1968 was finally able to formulate the mathematical model. |
| He continues his work on a grand unified theory of particle physics. |
| He worked tirelessly to interest the Pakistan government in science research and development. |
| Salam played a crucial role in Pakistan's development of a nuclear energy program. |
| He was the founder of Pakistan's space program and on September 16, 1961 the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission was established. |
| In the 1970's he led the program to develop Pakistan's first atomic bomb though he did not live to see Pakistan detonate its first atomic bomb on May 28, 1998. |
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