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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)
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