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Abdus Salam

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Abdus Salam 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 Muslim to receive the prize in the sciences. Salam heavily contributed to the rise of Pakistani physics to the Physics community in the world.^[20][21]