Salam legacy

Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was a 1979 Nobel laureate in Physics, and helped found the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London. He first arrived at Imperial College London in 1957 and remained a professor here for the rest of his life. Salam won the Nobel Prize, along with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg, for his work in unifying two fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. Not only was Salam a brilliant theoretical physicist, but he also championed the spread of science in the developing world.

A special lecture hosted by Imperial Theoretical Physics and Imperial Institutional Events, to celebrate the naming of the Abdus Salam Library at Imperial. We welcome Professor Atish Dabholkar, the current Director of ICTP in Trieste, Italy, and Professor Brian Cox CBE, renowned science communicator as our key speakers.

A talk about the life, work and legacy of Pakistani Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salam. Delivered to high school students, as part of Salam Celebration Day at Imperial College, London, on January 29, 2024.

Prof. Michael Duff was Prof. Abdus Salam student. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the 2017 winner of the Dirac Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics. This will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Qaisar Shafi (theoretical physics) at Delaware University, and Prof. Salam’s former PhD student. He is the winner of Alexander von Humboldt Prize (1997) and member of the American Physical Society. The context for the event will be laid out by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy.