Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

by Gordon Fraser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199208468
• ISBN13: 9780199208463
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"