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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

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