Memorial Meeting for Nobel Laureate Prof Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday

摘要

On 29 January 2016, Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam would have been 90. Unfortunately he passed away far too young almost twenty years ago. Abdus Salam rose from modest conditions in the little village Jhang in what would become Pakistan to become one of the most important scientists of the last century. After having broken all school records even writing a paper in mathematics, he came to Cambridge to get his PhD in 1951. In 1957, he was called to Imperial College in London as Professor and there he built up a world leading group in theoretical physics. At the young age of just 33, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.