In doing so, Salam became the first Muslim scholar to win a science-related Nobel prize – and is so far the only Pakistani to achieve that feat. After moving to the UK in 1946 just before the ...

Pakistan, however, could not treasure its greatest scientist. Abdus Salam left Pakistan in 1974, in protest after the country's parliament unanimously passed a bill declaring members of the ...

Dr Abdul Salam was a theoretical physicist and was the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize in 1979. The function was arranged to honour his services in the field of science.

In The Trial of Abdus Salam, the science is denser, delving into topics like symmetry-breaking, particle mass, and the elusive Higgs boson, which Salam’s theories helped predict.