What keeps poor countries poor? This picture always reminds me of one important reason: "Resource misallocation".
Here's the story.
Eager to help his young country, Dr. Abdus Salam, the future Nobelist, returned to Pakistan in 1951 as a 25 years old star of the Physics world.
Here's the story.
Eager to help his young country, Dr. Abdus Salam, the future Nobelist, returned to Pakistan in 1951 as a 25 years old star of the Physics world.
He wanted to build a world-class Physics department at the university he joined.
But guess what job he was handed by the head of the university? ... A soccer coach!
Here he is sitting with the soccer players (and feeling out of place).
But guess what job he was handed by the head of the university? ... A soccer coach!
Here he is sitting with the soccer players (and feeling out of place).
Disappointed and unappreciated, Abdus Salam went back to UK. There, at only 30, he was offered a chair and asked to head the center for theoretical Physics at Imperial College.
Here is a picture of him in London, sitting with Physicists as the chair of the department.
Here is a picture of him in London, sitting with Physicists as the chair of the department.
Abdus Salam would win the Nobel prize.
He would also succeed in his mission to build a world-class center for Physics.
To date, over 100,000 scientists have come through this center.
Salam wanted to build this center in Pakistan ... but he was made a soccer coach.
He would also succeed in his mission to build a world-class center for Physics.
To date, over 100,000 scientists have come through this center.
Salam wanted to build this center in Pakistan ... but he was made a soccer coach.
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