Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Gordon Fraser ISBN: 9780191578663
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: April 24, 2008
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author: Gordon Fraser
ISBN: 9780191578663
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: April 24, 2008
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.

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This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.

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