| Authorised form of name | Salam; Muhammad Abdus (1926 - 1996) |
| Dates | 1926 - 1996 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 29/01/1926 |
| Date of death | 21/11/1996 |
| Research field | Theoretical Physics |
| Activity | Education:
Government College, Lahore (on a scholarship); University of Cambridge (Punjab Government Scholarship). MA (Punjab); BA (Cambridge 1949); PhD (Cantab)
Career:
Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA; Professor of Mathematics, Punjab University and Government College, Lahore; Lecturer and Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (1954); Professor of Applied Mathematics, Imperial College, London (1957); Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, London (1960); Scientific Advisor (part time) to President of Pakistan Ayub Khan (1961); resigned (1974); founder and first Director (1964-1993), then President (from 1993) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (inaugurated 1964)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1979
Honours:
KBE (Hon) 1989 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1959 |
| Age at election | 33 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1964; Royal Medal 1978; Copley Medal 1990
Lectures:
Bakerian 1980 |
| Relationships | Son of Choudhary Muhammad Hussain, a teacher |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 99/4/01. Papers deposited in the Library, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (covering the period 1939-2000)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1998 vol 44 pp 385-401, plate, by T W B Kibble
References:
P Harper, 'Preserving scientific archives: the work of NCUACS' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 227-232 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27596310 |
| Code | NA6457 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| HWT/6/11 | Correspondence and papers regarding International Centre for Theoretical Physics and UNESCO medium term objectives for 1975-1980 | January - February 1973 |
| IM/003861 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | nd |
| IM/004012 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | nd |
| IM/GA/WRS/8689 | Salam, Abdus | nd |
| HWT/14/4 | Correspondence and papers | September - December 1974 |
| HWT/27/2 | 'Towards a scientific research and development policy for Pakistan' by I H Usmani and Abdus Salam, with covering note | 10 November 1970 |
| HWT/6/12 | Correspondence and papers regarding International Centre for Theoretical Physics | March 1973 |
| EC/1959/20 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003984 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | nd |
| IM/003985 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | nd |
| IM/003986 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | nd |
| IM/003987 | Salam, Muhammad Abdus | 1978 |
| RR/79/206 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'Covariant Fock equations' by Paul Taunton Matthews and Abdus Salam | 11 August 1953 |
| RR/75/227 | Referee's report by Nicholas Kemmer, on a paper 'Renormalization of scaler electrodynamics using β-formalism' by Abdus Salam | 20 September 1951 |