Laureate Information

Personal details and nobel prizes.

Full name
Abdus Salam
Birthdate
1926-01-29
Birth Location
Jhang Maghiāna, India (now Pakistan)
Nobel Prizes
1
Wikipedia
Abdus_Salam
Wikidata
Q28189
Prize details
Awarding year
1979
Awarding date
1979-10-15
Category
Physics
Motivation
for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Prize amount
800,000
Affiliations

    International Centre for Theoretical Physics | Trieste, Italy

    Imperial College | London, United Kingdom