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Nobel Prize

Pakistan · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1979

Abdus Salam10 December 1979

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for contributions to unified weak and electromagnetic interactions.

Names involved

Abdus Salam

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