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About Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
Mohammad Abdus Salam NI, SPk, KBE (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد عبد السلام; pronounced [%C9%99bd%CC%AA%CA%8As səlɑm]) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. A major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and first Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt).
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Mohammad Abdus Salam NI(M) SPk (/sæˈlæm/; pronounced [%C9%99bd%CC%AA%CA%8As səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
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Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979's Timeline
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January 29, 1926
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Jhang, Jhang District, Punjab, Pakistan
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| 1996 |
November 21, 1996
Age 70
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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November 29, 1996
Age 70
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Chenab Nagar (Rabwah), Jhang District, Punjab, Pakistan
His body was returned to Pakistan four days after his death and kept in Darul Ziafat, where some 13,000 men and women visited to pay their last respects. Approximately 30,000 people attended his funeral prayers. Salam was buried in Bahishti Maqbara, a cemetery established by the Ahmadiyya Community at Rabwah, Punjab, Pakistan, next to his parents' graves. The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate". The Pakistani government removed "Muslim" and left only his name on the headstone.The word "Muslim" is obscured on the orders of a local magistrate. |
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