Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist - Gordon Fraser

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2012
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-969712-0 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
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Biography of Abdus Salam, the first citizen of Pakistan to win a Nobel Prize, who was nevertheless branded as a heretic and excommunicated from his home country, where his achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Instead, he acted out his dreams on an wider stage, as a citizen of the world.
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 Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.

Educated Imperial College, London (BSc 1st class honours, Physics and Mathematics, 1964; PhD, Theory of Elementary Particles, 1967) . During the 1960s, Fraser wrote some short-story fiction as a hobby. By 1970 Fraser combined two very different interests by becoming a reporter for Computer Weekly and later returned to science as an in-house writer and editor at major laboratories. From 1980-2002 Fraser was Editor of CERN Courier, the monthly magazine of the international high energy physics community. He has given talks at university science departments, in a mosque, and for TV programmes.

1. A turban in Stockholm ; 2. The tapestry of a sub-continent ; 3. Messiahs, Mahdis and Ahmadis ; 4. A mathematical childhood ; 5. From mathematics to physics ; 6. The men who knew infinities ; 7. Not so splendid isolation ; 8. 'Think of something better' ; 9. The arrogant theory ; 10. Uniting nations of science ; 11. Trieste ; 12. Electroweak ; 13. Quark Liberation Front ; 14. Demise ; 15. Prejudice and pride ; Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.1.2012
Zusatzinfo 2 b&w line drawings, 22 b&w halftones, 16pp plate section
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 216 mm
Gewicht 434 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Naturwissenschaften Chemie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Quantenphysik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-969712-4 / 0199697124
ISBN-13 978-0-19-969712-0 / 9780199697120
Zustand Neuware
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