Abdus Salam (1926-1996), Pakistani physicist and Nobel Laureate, at a seminar in his honour. Salams early career drifted between Lahore, the Punjab University and Cambridge. Salams main work was in the theory relating to the unification of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. This work earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979. He was the first Pakistani and first Muslim from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science. The theory predicted the existence of neutral currents and the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, which have since been discovered experimentally. Salam was a prominent advocate for theoretical physics in the developing world. Photographed at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, on 26 Oct 1979.