Prized possession: Dr Abdus Salam’s Nobel diploma sits proudly during GCU
Dr Abdus Salam’s diploma on arrangement during GCU. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE: The diploma that Dr Abdus Salam perceived with his Nobel Prize in 1979 proudly sits during a Government College University Lahore.
The ancestral request was means to a university by Professor Dr Katepalli R Steenivasan, a afterwards executive of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy, says GCU Salam Chair Professor Dr G Murtaza.
While articulate to The Express Tribune, Dr Murtaza says Dr Steenivasan had visited a GCU and means it during that time. He adds it is an respect for a varsity to residence a diploma of this magnitude.
He recalls Umar Salam, son of Dr Abdus Salam, and his mom visited GCU on Jan 22, 2003 on an invitation from a university. He says a rite was hold during a Salam Hall, also named after a Nobel Prize winner. He remembers opposite speakers appreciated a services of a scientist on a occasion.
Dr Abdus Salam was innate on Jan 29, 1929 in Jhang. He is deliberate a vital figure in 20th century fanciful physics. He common a 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his grant to a Electroweak Unification Theory.
He was a initial Pakistani and a second chairman from an Islamic nation to accept a Nobel Prize after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
According to Dr Murtaza, Dr Salam did his matriculation during a age of 14 and done story by scoring a top outlines ever available in a hearing of a Punjab University. He pronounced in 1942, after doing his FSc from Jhang, Salam came to GCU Lahore.
In 1944, Salam took a BA hearing with mathematics, English and Urdu as his subjects and pennyless all annals by a substantial margin.
He finished his Masters in Mathematics in 1946 by scoring 100%. He says after a scientist went to Cambridge, where he did his PhD, he returned to Pakistan and assimilated GCU as a highbrow of mathematics.
He continues that Salam, during a age of 38, became a executive of ICTP in 1964 and that is where he determined himself. For his contribution, Salam also got a Atoms for Peace endowment and award, he states.
Dr Murtaza informs The Express Tribune that Salam became a fellow/member of some-more than 30 academies/societies of a universe and was awarded by some-more than 40 universities opposite a globe. He died on 21 Nov 1996 during a age of 70 in Oxford, England. His physique was brought to Pakistan and is buried in Chenab Nagar where his relatives and mother lay to rest.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
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