The only ‘Muslim Nobel Laureate’ till 1979, except Anwar Sadat.

Doctor Professor Abdus Salam was born in Jhang, now in Pakistan, on January 29, 1926, of a father who was an official in the local department of education. He went to school in Lahore and when, at the age of 14, he cycled home to Jhang after gaining the highest marks ever recorded for the matriculation examination of the Punjab University, the entire town turned out to welcome him.

He won a scholarship to Government College, Lahore, from where he took his MA in 1946 and was awarded a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge. In 1949, he took a BA (Honours), with a double first in mathematics and physics and the following year was awarded the Smith’s Prize from Cambridge for the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to physics. His PhD thesis on theoretical physics was published in 1951. After returning to Pakistan, he taught mathematics at his old college and in 1952 was appointed head of the mathematics department of the Punjab University.
In March 1953, widespread disturbances broke out in Punjab, instigated by the Muslim ulema against the Qadiani Ahmedis. The demand was that they be declared a non-Muslim minority. Interestingly, the arguments applied upon Qadiani Ahmedis, also befit Bori's, Agakhani's, Momin's et al, but please note that unlike the rest -who are Very-rich-with- money, the Qadiani Ahmedis are largely peasants and farmers.

Turning back to Salam, he had to leave his homeland in 1954 for a lectureship at Cambridge, where he kept working.

Meanwhile, on September 21, 1974, the Second Amendment to the constitution of 1973 was enacted. The Qadiani Ahmedis community was finally (the exercise began in 1953) shorn of its majority rights and declared a non-Muslim minority after it had existed as part of the majority since the birth of the country in 1947.

The 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared equally between Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg and Salam “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.”
Sadly, in the early 1990s Salam suffered a rare nervous disease which affected his speech and his bodily movements, leaving his mind perfectly clear. He died in in Cambridge 1996, and his body was taken back to Pakistan,. Today he is buried in Chenab Nagar , earlier known as Rabhwa. Internationally renowned only Muslim Nobel Laureat’s gravestone has been amended to comically read ‘The First blankety-blank Nobel Laureate,’ the word Muslim having been brutally erased.
Some 59-odd years ago, Mussalman leader Abul Kalam Azad, a genuine true maulana, a profoundly educated man, who habitually and openly imbibed of that God-given fine malt drink and made no bones about it, was heard to murmur one balmy evening, ‘Ummmm, but we must not forget that India is a country whereas Pakistan is an experiment.’ He was quite right in his prophesy, just that he missed calling it a ‘failed’ experiment.’