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Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist | 
 enlarge | Author: Gordon Fraser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 240414
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
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ISBN: 0199208468
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.092
EAN: 9780199208463
ASIN: 0199208468
Publication Date: August 15, 2008
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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.
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