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Cosmic anger : Abdus Salam - the first Muslim Nobel scientist /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraser, Gordon, 1943- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Salam, Abdus, > 1926-1996.
Salam, Abdus, > 1926-1996
Physicists > Pakistan > Biography.
Nobel Prize winners > Pakistan > Biography.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Nobel Prize winners
Physicists
Pakistan
Electronic books.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A turban in Stockholm
  • The tapestry of a subcontinent
  • Messiahs, mahdis, and ahmadis
  • A mathematical childhood
  • From mathematics to physics
  • The men who knew infinities
  • Not so splendid isolation
  • 'Think of something better'
  • The arrogant theory
  • Uniting Nations of science
  • Trieste
  • Electroweak
  • Quark liberation front
  • Demise
  • Prejudice and pride.