Professor Abdus Salam 1926-1996

First Muslim and the only Pakistani Nobel Laureate

• Profile of Dr. Abdus Salam
• An interview with Dr. Abdus Salam (New Scientist 26 August, 1976)
• Abdus Salam -- Past and Present (The News, 29 Jan. 1996)
• Picture Gallery
• Abdus Salam – Banquet Speech December 10, 1979
• First Ahmadi Muslim Scientist - Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu pdf) - by Engineer Mahmood Mujeeb Asghar
• Musalmano Ka Newton - Dr. Abdus Salam by Zakaria Virk (Urdu pdf 30MB)

Some of his writings

• The Holy Quran And Science
• The Golden Age of Science in Islam: The Experimental Method.
• Faith and Science
• Islam and Science -- Concordance or Conflict
• Future of science in Islamic countries (Paper for Islamic Summit, 1987)
• Poor As A Nation
• Book: Ideals and Realities (Selected essays of Abdus Salam)

Pakistani Press on his death

Dr. Abdus Salam died on 21st November, 1996, at 8:15am (Pakistan Standard Time) in London.
INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHI RAJI'OON.

News Reports

• Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam dies (The News, 22 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Death of a genius (Dawn, 22 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Salam's body taken to Rabwah (Dawn, 25 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Dr Salam laid to rest (Dawn, 26 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Funeral Prayers at Rabwah (Dawn Photo)

Articles

• A hero is gone (Dawn, 22 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Salam passes into history (The News, 24 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Abdus Salam - the human side (The News, 26 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• The force we never applied fully (The News, 29 Nov. 1996, Pakistan)
• Tribute to a genius (Dawn, 4 Dec. 1996, Pakistan)

Letters

• Tributes to a great scientist (Dawn, 4 Dec. 1996, Pakistan)
• Salam remembered (The News, 5 Dec. 1996, Pakistan)

Bangladesh Press

• A summary of tributes paid to Dr. Abdus Salam (by Bangladesh Press)
• Tribute to Prof Salam (Daily Star, 23 Nov. 1996)
• Prof Salam's death condoled (Bangladesh Observer, 25 Nov. 1996)
• Abdus Salam: Profile of a Nobel Laureate (Daily Star, 3 Dec. 1996)
• Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate Extraordinaire (Daily Star, 9 Dec. 1996)

Indonesian Press

• ABDUS SALAM, NOBELIS FISIKA ITU PUN PERGI
• FISIKAWAN ABDUS SALAM MENINGGAL
• ABDUS SALAM, SATU DUTA, TIGA DUNIA
• PROF ABDUS SALAM, HARGA DIRI SEORANG MUSLIM

Other Related Resources

• The Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy)
• Third World Academy of Sciences
• Salam was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim scientist to win a Nobel Prize (A Historical Fact from Encyclop‘dia Britannica, Inc)
• Dr. Abdus Salam - Nobel Prize Internet Archive