The year 2007 marked not only the centenary of Imperial College London but also the 50th anniversary of the late Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam’s arrival at the College. Accordingly, a conference entitled Salam + 50 organized by the Theoretical Physics Group was held at Imperial College on 7 July 2007. Many distinguished guests attended and paid their respects to the great man. Their contributions recorded in these proceedings are divided into three sections, designed to reflect the three dimensions of Salam’s character: 1) Salam theScientist, 2) Salam the Humanitarian, and 3) Salam the Man. INDICE: Welcoming Address (R Sykes); Salam the Scientist: The Grand View of Physics (G ‘t Hooft); Abdus Salam at Imperial College (T Kibble); Memories of Working with Abdus Salam (C Isham); In Memoriam: Abdus Salam (1926–1996) (K S Stelle); Salam the Humanitarian: Abdus Salam and Pakistan (M Lodhi); The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (F Hussain); A Personal Account of Professor Abdus Salam (K R Sreenivasan); Salam the Man: Salam’s Mantle of Britishness (G Fraser); Recollections of My Father (A Salam); Recollections of My Father (A Rahman); Recollections of My Grandfather (S Rahman); Message from theWorldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (M M Ahmad); Presentation of the Abdus Salam Imperial College Physics Graduate Prize (M Ahmad).
- ISBN: 978-1-84816-190-0
- Editorial: Imperial College
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 96
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés