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Cosmic Anger : Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

By: Publication details: New York; Oxford University Press; 2012Description: 305 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780199697120
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.09 SAL
Summary: This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Biography 530.09 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 15/06/2023 PKLC022725
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Biography 530.09 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC020369
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This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.

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