Salam Memorial

by T.W.B. KIBBLE / Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. Recollections of Abdus Salam at Imperial College I shall give a personal account of Professor Salam's life and work from the perspective of a colleague at Imperial College, concentrating particularly but not exclusively on the period leading up to the discovery of the electro-weak theory. If necessary I could perhaps give more detail, but only once I have given more thought to what ground I shall cover. by Sheldon Lee GLASHOW / Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Memories of Abdus Salam. My interactions with Abdus Salam, weak as they have been, extended over five decades. I regret that we never once collaborated in print or by correspondence. I visited Abdus only twice in London and twice again in Trieste, and met him at the occasional conference or summer school. Our face-to-face encounters could be counted on one's fingers and toes, but we became the best of friends. Others will discuss Abdus as an inspiring teacher, as a great scientist, as the creator and guiding spirit of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and as a champion of Third World science and technology. I would take this opportunity to recall a few personal and memorable moments I have enjoyed with one of the warmest, gentlest and most gracious people I have ever known. by Carlo RUBBIA / LHC Division, CERN, Geneva. The standard model, Abdus Salam and CERN. CERN's contributions in establishing the experimental foundations of the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Electro-Weak model will be briefly reviewed: (1) the early neutrino experiments and the discovery of neutral currents, (2) the development of the p-pbar collider and the discovery of the IVB's and (3) the systematic consolidation work of LEP will be discussed. The catalysing role of Abdus Salam for the experimental HEP community will be underlined. His vision and his scientific message for much higher energies (LHC) and bold explorations beyond the SM (proton decay and neutrino oscillations) will be briefly recalled, mostly out of personal recollections.