Abdus Salam Award
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The Abdus Salam Award is a most prestigious award
that is awarded annually to Pakistan
i nationals to the field of chemistry
, mathematics
, physics
, biology
. The award is awarded to the scientists who are resident in Pakistan, below 35 years of age on the 31st of December of the year for which the Prize was to be awarded. It is to consist of a certificate giving a citation and a cash award of US$
1,000. It is to be awarded on the basis of the collected research and/or a technical essay written specially for the Prize
The Award is a brainchild of Professor
Abdus Salam
's students dr. Riazuddin
, Fayyazuddin
and dr. Asghar Qadir
who first presented the idea to Abdus Salam
in 1979. Abdus Salam, who felt that he had no right to use the Prize money
for personal purposes but that it must be used to further his mission of development of Science in the Third World. Abdus Salam specially put aside money to help Pakistan and Pakistani students. In 1980, Prof. Salam asked Prof. Fayyazuddin and Dr. Asghar Qadir to formulate the rules and procedures for a Prize to be awarded to young Pakistani scientists for their research in the basic sciences. Professor Asghar Qadir is currently the Secretary of Salam Prize Committee Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Campus. The Abdus Salam Award is also sponsored by sponsored by Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya UK since 2007.
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Award
An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
that is awarded annually to Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i nationals to the field of chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
. The award is awarded to the scientists who are resident in Pakistan, below 35 years of age on the 31st of December of the year for which the Prize was to be awarded. It is to consist of a certificate giving a citation and a cash award of US$
United States dollar
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1,000. It is to be awarded on the basis of the collected research and/or a technical essay written specially for the Prize
The Award is a brainchild of Professor
Professor
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Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
's students dr. Riazuddin
Riazuddin
Riazuddin, also spelled as Riaz-Uddin, , is a renowned and prominent Pakistani theoretical physicist and an eminent scientist, specializing in high-energy physics and nuclear physics. Dr. Riazuddin is one of Pakistan's top scientists and is widely known theoretical physicists in Pakistan and abroad...
, Fayyazuddin
Fayyazuddin
Dr. Prof. Fayyazuddin or , , , is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at National Centre for Physics and Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad....
and dr. Asghar Qadir
Asghar Qadir
Asghar Qadir , HI, SI, FPAS, is a renowned Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialized in Mathematical physics and Physical cosmology. He is considered as one of the top mathematicians in Pakistan...
who first presented the idea to Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
in 1979. Abdus Salam, who felt that he had no right to use the Prize money
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
for personal purposes but that it must be used to further his mission of development of Science in the Third World. Abdus Salam specially put aside money to help Pakistan and Pakistani students. In 1980, Prof. Salam asked Prof. Fayyazuddin and Dr. Asghar Qadir to formulate the rules and procedures for a Prize to be awarded to young Pakistani scientists for their research in the basic sciences. Professor Asghar Qadir is currently the Secretary of Salam Prize Committee Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Campus. The Abdus Salam Award is also sponsored by sponsored by Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya UK since 2007.
Recipients
- Dr. Pervaiz Amirali Hoodbhoy – Abdus Salam Prize in Mathematics (1984)
- Dr. Mujahid KamranMujahid KamranMujahid Kamran , is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and the current Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University of Lahore, Punjab. He is the Professor of physics and, had previously served as the Chairman of the Physics Department at the University of the Punjab...
- Abdus Salam Prize in Physics (1985) - Dr. Muhammad Suhail ZubairyMohammad Suhail ZubairyMuhammad Suhail Zubairy is a Professor of Physics at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics. He has made pioneering contributions in the fields of laser physics and quantum optics. He has authored and co-authored several books and over 250...
– Abdus Salam Award in Physics (1986) - Dr. Bina S. Siddiqui – Abdus Salam Prize in Chemistry (1986)
- Dr. Qaiser MushtaqQaiser MushtaqQaiser Mushtaq , , is a prominent Pakistani mathematician and a renowned academic who has made numerous contribution in the field of Group theory and Semigroup. He is a Professor of Mathematics, and Dean faculty of Natural sciences at the Quaid-i-Azam University of Islamabad. Dr...
– Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics (1987) - Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhry– Abdus Salam Award in Chemistry (1990)
- Dr. Ashfaque H. Bokhari – Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics (1991)
- Dr. Anwar-ul Hassan Gilani – Abdus Salam Award in Biology (1994)
- Dr. Asghar QadirAsghar QadirAsghar Qadir , HI, SI, FPAS, is a renowned Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialized in Mathematical physics and Physical cosmology. He is considered as one of the top mathematicians in Pakistan...
- Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics (1997) - Dr. Naseer Shahzad – Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics (1998)
- Dr. Tasawar HayatTasawar HayatTasawar Hayat is a Pakistani mathematician who has made pioneering research in mechanical engineering, Newtonian mechanics and physics. One of the leading mathematician in Pakistan, Hayat is an associate professor of post-graduate studies in mathematics at the Quaid-i-Azam University. At Qau, he...
– Abdus Salam Award in Mathematics (1999) - Dr. Rabia Hussain – Abdus Salam Prize in Biology (2000)
- Dr. Ghulam Shabbir - Abdus Salam Prize in Mathematics (2003)
- Dr. Naseer-Ud-Din Shams – Abdus Salam Award in Physics (2009)
- Dr. Tayyab Kamran – Abdus Salam Prize in Mathematics (2009)
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