Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

Download or read book Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist written by Gordon Fraser and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.