Who was Mohammad Abdus Salam?
Q: Who was Mohammad Abdus Salam?
A: Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Q: Where did he study?
A: He studied at the Government College Lahore and the University of Punjab, Lahore before going to Cambridge University for his PhD studies.
Q: What did he do upon returning to Pakistan?
A: Upon returning to Pakistan, he found that he was cut off from the rest of the scientific world there and so decided to go back to England where he started to teach and research.
Q: What was his interest in Grand Unified Theory?
A: His interest in Grand Unified Theory stemmed from his belief that if the Creator of the universe is one then all forces must have a single origin.
Q: How did Salam show weak nuclear forces are related to electromagnetic forces?
A: Salam successfully showed that weak nuclear forces are not really different from electromagnetic forces, and two could inter-convert by providing a theory that shows their unification into one another.
