Abdus Salam
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Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk  (Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced əbd̪ʊs səlɑm, (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

 for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....

 shared the 1979 Nobel prize for this discovery.
Quotations

Scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind.

It is just impossible to talk only of technology transfer. One should talk of science transfer first and technology transfer later…..Unless you are very good at science you will never be good at technology.

Whenever faced with two competing theories for the same set of observations I have always found that the theory which was more aesthetically satisfying is also the correct one.

As a scientist, the Quran speaks to me in that it emphasises reflection on Laws of Nature, with examples drawn from cosmology, physics, biology and medicine, as signs for all men.

If you consider me to be a non-Muslim, it is your problem but permit me to lay a brick in the mosque you want to build.

 
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