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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Abdus Salam, Ishfaq Ahmad, Asma Jahangir, Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Hamid Mir, Noor Muhammad Butt, Yousaf Raza Gillani, Mahmood Ahmad Qazi, Masud Ahmad, Javed Hashmi, Muneer Ahmad Rashid, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Mohammed Rafique Mughal, Ghulam Murtaza, Mujahid Kamran, Salim Mehmud, Sartaj Aziz, Muzaffar Iqbal, Mian Muhammad Mansha Yaha, Liaqat Ali Khan, Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi, Khalid Masud, Farzana Aslam, Har Gobind Khorana, Anwar Nasim, Ralph Randles Stewart, Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, Ghulam Ahmad, Satish Dhawan, Muneer Ahmed Badini, Jagannath Azad, Mohan Rakesh, Rahman Syed, Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, Tanzil Haider Usmani, Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Rehman Azhar, Anwer Zahidi, Sohail Rashid, Ibn-e-Insha, Siddiq Khan Kanju, Farzana Raja, Dalip Singh Saund, Chaudry Mohammad Aslam, Suheyl Umar, Mohsin Razi, Khawaja Zafar Iqbal, Sarwar Munir Rao, Fakhar -i- Abbas, Abdul Matin Khan, Ali Yasir, Colin David, Mehr Abdul Haq, Mushtaq Ahmad, Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Fauzia Abbas. Excerpt: Mohammad Abdus Salam (Urdu: ) (January 29, 1926 - November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg shared the 1979 Nobel prize for this discovery. Salam holds the distinction of being the first Pakistani and the first Muslim Nobel Laureate to receive the prize in the sciences. Salam was a science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 till 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in Pakistan's science infrastructure. Salam was responsible for not only major development and contribution in theoretical and particle physics, but as well as promoting scientific research at maximum level in his country. Salam was the founding director of Space and Upper Atm...
