PHYSICIST

Abdus Salam

1926 - 1996

Photo of Abdus Salam

Icon of person Abdus Salam

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. He was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.Salam was scientific advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology in Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in the development of the country's science infrastructure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdus Salam has received more than 2,283,952 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Abdus Salam is the 214th most popular physicist (up from 234th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 17th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Abdus Salams by language

Over the past year Abdus Salam has had the most page views in the with 304,431 views, followed by Arabic (26,424), and Persian (20,563). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (192.36%), Haitian (79.57%), and Simple English (72.91%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abdus Salam ranks 214 out of 851. Before him are Richard E. Taylor, James Cronin, David J. Thouless, David Lee, Arthur Ashkin, and Yoichiro Nambu. After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, Clifford Shull, Chien-Shiung Wu, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Vitaly Ginzburg.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Abdus Salam ranks 45. Before him are Valdas Adamkus, Mel Brooks, Necmettin Erbakan, Louise Hay, Andrew Schally, and Jack Brabham. After him are Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, David Attenborough, Vivian Maier, Ingrid Thulin, and Clifford Geertz. Among people deceased in 1996, Abdus Salam ranks 26. Before him are Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, Sergiu Celibidache, Joan Clarke, Marcel Carné, and Magda Schneider. After him are Artur Axmann, René Clément, Odysseas Elytis, Ademir de Menezes, Solomon Asch, and Andreas Papandreou.

Others Born in 1926

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1996

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Abdus Salam ranks 14 out of 217. Before him are Bhagat Singh (1907), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Vasubandhu (400), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), and Porus (-400). After him are Asanga (300), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Ranjit Singh (1780), Aga Khan III (1877), and Imran Khan (1952).

Others born in Pakistan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

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).

Pakistani born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous