Abdus Salam Quotes


People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.


Citations

Salam, Abdus. Interview. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, WGBH Educational Foundation, 1986.

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Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
  • Born: January 29, 1926
  • Died: November 21, 1996
  • Nationality: Pakistani
  • Profession: Scientist

Mohammad Abdus Salam NI(M) SPk, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt).