Today we celebrate Mohammad Abdus Salam’s birthday! He was one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the 20th century and the first Pakistani Nobel laureate in science. #TIL ⚛ 
Salam’s doctoral thesis on theory in quantum fields earned him international fame for its comprehensive and fundamental exploration of quantum electrodynamics.
This fed into his work in the 1960s when he devised the electroweak theory on unifying two of the four known forces of nature: electromagnetic force and weak nuclear force.
He hypothesized that weak force was transmitted by carrier particles — charged W and neutral Z bosons.
He hypothesized that weak force was transmitted by carrier particles — charged W and neutral Z bosons.
Experiments conducted in the 1970s substantiated his theory, marking his work as an important contribution to Einstein's dream of unified forces.
This work subsequently earned Salam — along with two others who had reached similar conclusions — the @NobelPrize in #Physics in 1979.
In 1964, he founded the @ictpnews in collaboration with the IAEA. The centre continues to provide scientists from around the world a place to advance their studies and research. ictp.it
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