Cosmic anger
Subtitle: Abdus Salam and the forces of nature
By: by Gordon Fraser.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780199208463
Subjects: Salam, Abdus, -- 1926-; Physicists -- Pakistan -- Biography; Nobel Prize winners -- Pakistan -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A turban in Stockholm; title: The tapestry of a subcontinent; title: Messiahs, mahdis, and ahmadis; title: A mathematical childhood; title: From mathematics to physics; title: The men who knew infinities; title: Not so splendid isolation; title: 'Think of something better'; title: The arrogant theory; title: Uniting Nations of science; title: Trieste; title: Electroweak; title: Quark liberation front; title: Demise; title: Prejudice and pride.