Tag: Dr Abdus Salam

By Mayank Chhaya, Chicago : The baffling and paradoxical life of Dr. Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani and Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Physics, is a subject of a compelling documentary by New York-based Indian American filmmaker Anand Kamalakar. Salam (1926-1996) is a dichotomous figure in the world of science. He once said: "I would never have started to work on the subject (physics) if I was not a Muslim." Yet, in his lifetime, not only was he shunned by Pakistan, the place of his birth, because he belonged...