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Abdus Salam
Physics1979(1/3)
Motivation
"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"
The Nobel Prize in Physics
Prize Amount: SEK 800,000 (adjusted: SEK 3,778,486)
Affiliation
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy
Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
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Personal Information
Full Name:
Abdus Salam
Gender:
male
Born:
1926-01-29 — Jhang Maghiāna, India (now Pakistan)
Died:
1996-11-21 — Oxford, United Kingdom
Nobel Prizes
Physics1979
for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current