By:
Chandrashekar Bhat
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON has stated it’s going to rename its central library after the Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani scientist, the late Abdus Salam.
The college’s choice to recognise the theoretical physicist follows a report final yr which centered on “undercelebrated individuals” from its previous.
Salam, born in Punjab in present-day Pakistan in 1926, joined Imperial in 1957 and arrange the theoretical physics division with the late professor Paul T Matthews.
He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize with two different scientists for his contribution to the electroweak unification idea.
“It’s proper that we do extra” to rejoice the legacy of Salam who made “an incredible contribution to Imperial,” college president Hugh Brady stated.
He hoped the brand new Abdus Salam Library, which can be formally named within the subsequent tutorial yr, would encourage “many extra individuals within the years to come back.”
Imperial described the physicist as a “passionate promoter of science training within the creating world”, having based the Worldwide Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1964.
