Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam A Nobel Prize winner (1979) was born in 1926 in Jhang, Pakistan. His father was an official in the Department of Education. At the age of 14, after gaining the highest marks ever recorded in his country he won a scholarship to Government College. His hard work and devotion to his work made him highest ranked scientist with a high profile Curriculum Vitae.Dr. Abdus Salam obtained a PhD in theoretical physics at Cambridge, his thesis, published in 1951, contained fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics which had already gained him an international reputation. The money he received from the Atoms for Peace Medal and Award he spent on setting up a fund for young Pakistani physicists to visit the ICTP. He uses his share of the Nobel Prize entirely for the benefit of physicists from developing countries and does not spend a penny of it on himself or his family.
ICTP was Founded in 1964 by Abdus Salam, the Centre operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government and two United Nations Agencies, UNESCO and IAEA.

He was a member of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, a member of the Scientific Commission of Pakistan and was Chief Scientific Adviser to the President from 1961 to 1974.

Abdus Salam died on November 21, 1996.

Awards

Hopkins Prize (Cambridge University) for "the most outstanding contribution to Physics during 1957-1958"
Adams Prize (Cambridge University) (1958)
First recipient of Maxwell Medal and Award (Physical Society, London) (1961)
Hughes Medal (Royal Society, London) (1964)
Atoms for Peace Medal and Award (Atoms for Peace Foundation) (1968)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Medal and Prize (University of Miami) (1971)
Guthrie Medal and Prize (1976)
Matteuci Medal (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome) (1978)
John Torrence Tate Medal (American Institute of Physics) (1978)
Royal Medal (Royal Society, London) (1978)
Einstein Medal (UNESCO, Paris) (1979)
Shri R.D. Birla Award (India Physics Association) (1979)
Josef Stefan Medal (Josef Stefan Institute, Ljublijana) (1980)
Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Physics (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague) (1981)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (USSR Academy of Sciences) (1983)
Copley Medal (Royal Society, London) (1990)