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Abdus Salam Physics Timeline

This static page gathers the Physics records in the database for Abdus Salam.

24 records1926–1996

Abdus Salam in the Physics archive

This static timeline brings together 24 physics records for Abdus Salam, spanning 1926–1996. The records connect the physicist with events including Birth, Birth of Abdus Salam, Matriculation, Masters Degree, Cambridge Degree, Smith's Prize.

Locations and countries represented in this timeline include Pakistan. Use the chronological table below to follow the sequence of research, discoveries, appointments and related events.

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Physics records

Date	Person	Event	Place	Description
29 January 1926	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Birth	Jhang, Pakistan	Is born in Jhang in Punjab, then part of British India and now in Pakistan.
1926	Abdus Salam	Birth of Abdus Salam	Pakistan	Birth of Abdus Salam
1940	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Matriculation	Punjab, Pakistan	Achieves exceptionally high marks in the University of the Punjab matriculation examination while still a teenager.
1946	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Masters Degree	Lahore, Pakistan	Completes his MA at Government College in Lahore and wins a scholarship for further study at Cambridge.
1949	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Cambridge Degree	Cambridge, Pakistan	Completes a BA with first-class honours in both mathematics and physics at St John's College, Cambridge.
1950	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Smith's Prize	Cambridge, Pakistan	Receives Cambridge University's Smith's Prize for outstanding pre-doctoral work in physics.
1951	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Doctorate	Cambridge, Pakistan	Completes a doctorate in theoretical physics at Cambridge with research that advances quantum electrodynamics.
1951	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Government College	Lahore, Pakistan	Returns to Pakistan and teaches mathematics at Government College in Lahore.
1954	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Cambridge Lectureship	Cambridge, Pakistan	Returns to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics after finding limited research opportunities in Pakistan.
1957	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Imperial College	London, Pakistan	Becomes Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, establishing a long association with the institution.
1959	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Royal Society	London, Pakistan	Is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, becoming the first Fellow elected from Pakistan.
1960	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	International Physics Centre Proposal	Vienna, Pakistan	Proposes an international theoretical physics institute that would support scientists from developing countries.
1961	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Scientific Adviser	Pakistan, Pakistan	Begins serving as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan while remaining active in theoretical physics.
1964	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist · ICTP Director	ICTP Director	Trieste, Pakistan	Becomes the founding director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics when the centre opens in Trieste.
1968	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Electroweak Theory	London, Pakistan	Formulates the electroweak gauge theory independently along lines closely related to Steven Weinberg's model, using spontaneous symmetry breaking to generate weak-boson masses.
1968	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Higgs Boson	London, Pakistan	Presents an electroweak gauge theory in which spontaneous symmetry breaking supplies masses to weak force carriers while preserving the underlying gauge structure.
1970	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Swedish Academy	Stockholm, Pakistan	Is elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
1973	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Higgs Boson	Trieste, Pakistan	Sees the discovery of weak neutral currents provide major experimental support for the electroweak framework in which the Higgs mechanism operates.
1973	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Neutral Currents	Geneva, Pakistan	Sees experimental observation of weak neutral currents provide a key confirmation of the electroweak theory.
10 December 1979	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist · Nobel Laureate	Higgs Boson	Stockholm, Pakistan	Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for electroweak unification, the theory whose massive weak bosons depend on spontaneous gauge-symmetry breaking.
10 December 1979	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist · Nobel Laureate	Nobel Prize	Stockholm, Pakistan	Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for contributions to unified weak and electromagnetic interactions.
1983	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Third World Academy	Trieste, Pakistan	Becomes a founding member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, furthering his effort to strengthen science in developing countries.
1993	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	ICTP Leadership	Trieste, Pakistan	Ends his long period as director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics after building it into a major international research institution.
21 November 1996	Abdus Salam Theoretical Physicist	Death	Oxford, Pakistan	Dies in Oxford after a career combining fundamental particle physics with advocacy for scientific development in poorer countries.

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