Pakistan’s two cents to the Higgs Boson Particle

KARACHI: Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer realise that some of the earliest theoretical groundwork that led to this discovery was laid by Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate,Dr Abdus Salam.

The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (known by its . . . →Read More:Pakistan’s two cents to the Higgs Boson Particle

The life and times of Dr Abdus Salam

Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate Abdus Salam was born in Santok Das,District Sahiwal,on January 29,1926 a little over 85 years ago. He shared the 1979 physics Nobel Prize with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow for the historic unification of the weak nuclear force with the electromagnetic force.

Salam had already become famous in . . . →Read More:The life and times of Dr Abdus Salam