EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mohammad Husain Abdus Salam was born in 1926 at Jhang, a farming village in Punjab, to parents of the Ahmadiyya-Moslem faith. At the age of 14, Abdus scored the highest marks ever given by the Matriculation Examiner in Punjab. In 1946, he received a scholarship for studies at Cambridge University, UK.

Detailed explanation-2: -Salam attended the Government College at Lahore, and in 1952 he received his Ph. D. in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge. He returned to Pakistan as a professor of mathematics in 1951–54 and then went back to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Salam worked on the unification of these forces, and successfully showed that weak nuclear forces and electromagnetic forces could be converted into each other – the ‘electroweak unification theory’ for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.