MG 4 · 1985
Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam was a Nobel laureate whose electroweak theory unified electromagnetic and weak interactions.
Born
1926, Jhang, Pakistan
Affiliation at the Time of the Award
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Prize Motivation
“For his work in unifying fundamental interactions.”
Meeting
MG IV, Rome, Italy
Work
Unification seeks common principles behind forces that appear different at ordinary energies.
Salam, with Glashow and Weinberg, developed the electroweak theory, and he founded ICTP to support international theoretical physics.
Electroweak unification became a pillar of the Standard Model and a model for later unification programs.