Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

shahzadqu · Mar 12th, 2009, 02:00 PM

hi all,

does anybody know where i can read about the work of Dr. Abdul Salaam. I mean the technical details of his work in elementary and quantum physics which earned him the Nobel prize. All i know is that his work involved combining two of the natural forces (perhaps, not too sure). Wikipedia's article on him does not have this detail

thanks

desi ostrich · Mar 12th, 2009, 02:12 PM

hi shahzad look at this

[SIZE=3]Book results for Dr. Abdul Salaam work[/SIZE]
Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus ... - by Abdus Salam, Z Hassan, CH Lai - 392 pages
Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: with Commentary - by Abdus Salam, CJ Isham, Fayyazuddin Riazuddin, ... - 702 pages

Monk · Mar 12th, 2009, 02:12 PM

any book on quantum physics would say , what he has done.
I read about him in
1-Brief history of time (stephan Hawking)
2-Quantum (al-khalili)

Monk · Mar 12th, 2009, 02:14 PM

If I remember it correctly , he actually won noble prize 10 year of submitting his research.

shahzadqu · Mar 13th, 2009, 04:55 PM

thanks for the help guys/(girls?)

I was actually hoping to read an article on his work rather then an entire book. I am not that into quantum physics. I just take an interest in it, i know most of the definitions and basic knowledge of workings of the quantum physics.

I was watching this documentary on String Theory and they mentioned that the biggest problem right now is to combine the force Gravity with the other 3 forces (The Strong, The Week and The Electromagnetism). Max Planck proposed and proved that electric and magnetic forces are really part of the same.

I thought that Abdul Salaam's work involved proving that 2 of the forces were really one, now i don't remember which ones those are. Is it strong and week? or did his work actually discovered strong and week nuclear forces?

a web article will be great for this.

any web links?

shahzadqu · Mar 16th, 2009, 01:30 PM

so the only scientist in Pakistani history with Nobel prize and there are no web articles on his work?

Bigboi · Apr 12th, 2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by shahzadqu

so the only scientist in Pakistani history with Nobel prize and there are no web articles on his work?

he was an Ahmadi, this is the Reason!

firenze · Apr 13th, 2009, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by shahzadqu

so the only scientist in Pakistani history with Nobel prize and there are no web articles on his work?

I don't know which internet you were searching, but anyway here is the list:

Abdus Salam - Biography
Chowk: Science: Dr Abdus Salam - The ’Mystic’ scientist
http://www.alislam.org/library/salam.html
Amazon.com: Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist: Gordon Fraser: Books
The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Abdus Salam

sadeeqbao · May 12th, 2009, 12:52 PM

thanks

chacha_Ghalib · Jun 1st, 2009, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shahzadqu

thanks for the help guys/(girls?)

I was actually hoping to read an article on his work rather then an entire book. I am not that into quantum physics. I just take an interest in it, i know most of the definitions and basic knowledge of workings of the quantum physics.

I was watching this documentary on String Theory and they mentioned that the biggest problem right now is to combine the force Gravity with the other 3 forces (The Strong, The Week and The Electromagnetism). Max Planck proposed and proved that electric and magnetic forces are really part of the same.

I thought that Abdul Salaam's work involved proving that 2 of the forces were really one, now i don't remember which ones those are. Is it strong and week? or did his work actually discovered strong and week nuclear forces?

a web article will be great for this.

any web links?

he combined the weak and electromagnetic forces. the combined force is called the electro-weak force.