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Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist
This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage...
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Oxford Univ. Press
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208463.001.0001 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1113289 |
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| author | Fraser, Gordon Murray |
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| description | This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of thedecline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by |
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| publisher | Oxford Univ. Press |
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| spelling | cern-11132892021-07-30T13:17:03Zdoi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208463.001.0001http://cds.cern.ch/record/1113289engFraser, Gordon MurrayCosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel ScientistBiography, Geography, HistoryThis book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of thedecline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined byOxford Univ. Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:11132892008 |
| spellingShingle | Biography, Geography, History Fraser, Gordon Murray Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title | Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title_full | Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title_fullStr | Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title_short | Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist |
| title_sort | cosmic anger: abdus salam - the first muslim nobel scientist |
| topic | Biography, Geography, History |
| url | https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208463.001.0001 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1113289 |
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