Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

shahzadqu · March 12, 2009, 7:00pm

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 · March 12, 2009, 7:12pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam’s work

hi shahzad look at this

Book results for Dr. Abdul Salaam work
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 · March 12, 2009, 7:12pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

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 · March 12, 2009, 7:14pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

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

shahzadqu · March 13, 2009, 9:55pm

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 · March 16, 2009, 6:30pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

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

Bigboi · April 12, 2009, 11:17pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

he was an Ahmadi, this is the Reason!

firenze · April 13, 2009, 5:02am

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam’s 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

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 12, 2009, 5:52pm

Re: Dr. Abdul Salaam's work

thanks

chacha_Ghalib · June 1, 2009, 7:47pm

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.