Mohammad Abdus Salam NI, SPk, KBE (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد عبد السلام ; pronounced [əbd ʊs səlɑm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who, when he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to electroweak unification, became the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim to win the prize, after Anwar El Sadat of Egypt, and the first Muslim to win the prize in...
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Mohammad Abdus Salam NI, SPk, KBE (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد عبد السلام ; pronounced [əbd ʊs səlɑm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who, when he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to electroweak unification, became the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim to win the prize, after Anwar El Sadat of Egypt, and the first Muslim to win the prize in...