Salam Chair and JPS GCU LAHORE jointly celebrates Dr. Abdus Salam’s 84th birthday

Salam Chair GCU has organized a special function in collaboration with the Jones Physics Society to mark 84th birth anniversary of Prof Dr. Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate and on Old Ravian. The event was kicked off with screening of a documentary about the great scientist. A large number of photographs of Prof Abdus Salam and books also put on display on this occasion.

Prof. G. Murtaza gave detailed biographical account of Prof. Salam’s life, starting from his humble beginnings in his home town Jhang and from there to Government College Lahore and then on to Cambridge University UK.

Dr. Hassan Shah gave a brief introduction to the importance of the theme of unification in Physics. Dr. Asim Malik gave a talk on the electroweak theory, the work for which Prof. Salam received the Nobel Prize in 1979. G.M. Piracha who was a close personal friend of Prof. Salam from the College days spoke about Salam as a young College student.

(01-02-2010)