Past Member
Abdus Salam
Affiliation
Math/NS
From the Nobel Foundation:
For more than forty years he has been a prolific researcher in theoretical elementary particle physics. He has either pioneered or been associated with all the important developments in this field, maintaining a constant and fertile flow of brilliant ideas. For the past thirty years he has used his academic reputation to add weight to his active and influential participation in international scientific affairs. He has served on a number of United Nations committees concerned with the advancement of science and technology in developing countries.
"Abdus Salam: Biographical," Nobel Foundation (1979)
Nobel Laureate, Physics Prize, 1979
Dates at IAS
Member
Math/NS
–
Spring
Degrees
University of Cambridge
Ph.D.
1952
Honors
1957-1958
Hopkins Prize Cambridge University
1979
Nobel Prize in Physics
1976
Guthrie Medal and Prize
1971
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Medal and Prize University of Miami
1968
Atoms for Peace Medal and Award Atoms for Peace Foundation
1964
Hughes Medal Royal Society, London
1961
Maxwell Medal and Award Physical Society, London
1958
Adams Prize, Cambridge University
Appointments
Sci Secy, Geneva Conf on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 & 1958
Member, UN Adv Comm on Sci & Tech 1964-1975, Chmn 1971-72
Member, UN Panel & Foundation Comm for UN Univ 1970-1973
Member, Sci Council, Stockholm Internat Peace Res Inst 1970
VPres, Internat Union of Pure & App Phys 1972-
Pakistan AEC 1958-
Pres, Pakistan Assoc for Adv of Sci 1961-1962
Chairman, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Committee 1961-1964
Governor from Pakistan to the Internat Atomic Energy Agency 1962-1963
Member, Nat Sci Council, Pakistan 1963-
Member, Board of Pakistan Sci Found 1973-
