Mohammad Abdus Salam NI(M) SPk (29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a Nobel Prize laureate. 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 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.
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29 January 1926 Punjab, Pakistan
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Died |
21 November 1996 (aged 70) Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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