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Abdus Salam

1926 - 1996

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Mohammad Abdus Salam (; pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdus Salam has received more than 2,306,721 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Abdus Salam is the 234th most popular physicist (down from 201st in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Physicist.

Abdus Salam is most famous for being the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abdus Salam ranks 234 out of 717. Before him are John Vincent Atanasoff, Carl von Linde, Nevill Francis Mott, Melvin Schwartz, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Jim Peebles. After him are Burton Richter, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Claude-Louis Navier, David J. Thouless, Ettore Majorana, and Jagadish Chandra Bose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Abdus Salam ranks 60. Before him are Vasily Arkhipov, Ingrid Thulin, George Martin, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Sergio Corbucci, and Noah Gordon. After him are Abdoulaye Wade, Harry Dean Stanton, John Fowles, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Richard Matheson, and George Habash. Among people deceased in 1996, Abdus Salam ranks 34. Before him are Mohammad Najibullah, Magda Schneider, Timothy Leary, Andreas Papandreou, Odysseas Elytis, and Nevill Francis Mott. After him are Masaki Kobayashi, António de Spínola, Ademir de Menezes, Claudette Colbert, Victor Ambartsumian, and George Davis Snell.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Abdus Salam ranks 17 out of 180. Before him are Vasubandhu (400), Porus (-400), Asanga (300), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928). After him are Kabir Bedi (1946), Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Aga Khan III (1877), Dev Anand (1923), Raj Kapoor (1924), and Ranjit Singh (1780).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Pakistan

Among physicists born in Pakistan, Abdus Salam ranks 2. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910). After him are Yash Pal (1926) and Nergis Mavalvala (1968).

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