{"id":292322,"date":"2020-12-14T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=292322"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:32:11","slug":"dr-abdus-salams-home-in-london-is-now-a-national-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/dr-abdus-salams-home-in-london-is-now-a-national-heritage-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Abdus Salam&#8217;s Home in London Is Now A National Heritage Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first and only Pakistani to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Science, Dr. Abdus Salam has been bestowed with a big honor by the government of the United Kingdom (UK). The British government has designated the residence of Nobel laureate as a national heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. Now his house in Britain has been declared a national heritage site. The globally celebrated scientist lived in London from 1957 till his death in 1996.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/you-can-watch-dr-abdus-salams-documentary-on-netflix-next-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Can Watch Dr Abdus Salam&#8217;s Documentary On Netflix Next Month<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A Blue Plaque was installed outside his former home, which was unveiled by English Heritage. The honor was bestowed upon 24 other globally acclaimed scientists in London such as Isaac Newton, Ada Lovelace, Micheal Faraday, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Abdus Salam 1926-1996, Physicist, Nobel Laureate and Champion of Science in developing countries, lived here,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1979 Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their contributions to the theory of unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7 Nobel Laureates Ceremony in 1979. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X3BhUQGUnG\">pic.twitter.com\/X3BhUQGUnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; English Heritage (@EnglishHeritage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglishHeritage\/status\/1332252358416494592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Founder of the Theoretical Physics Department at Imperial College London, the scientist resided there from 1957 till 1996, when he passed away.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet, Professor Michael Duff an apprentice of the Pakistani physicist lauded the development and looked back at Abdus Salam&#8217;s contributions to science.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Micheal Duff completed his Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Professor Salam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA blue plaque on the house in Putney where he lived for 40 years is a fitting tribute to Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, who was not only one of the finest scientists of the twentieth century, having unified two of the four fundamental forces of nature, but who also dedicated his life to the betterment of science and education in the developing world,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Professor Michael Duff who completed his PhD in 1972 under the supervision of Professor Salam said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA blue plaque on the house in Putney where he lived for 40 years is a fitting tribute to Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, who was not only one of the finest scientists of 20th&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9uEY9tANzu\">pic.twitter.com\/9uEY9tANzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fidato (@tequieremos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tequieremos\/status\/1332662303075020800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/this-pakistani-lady-is-the-first-female-president-of-world-union-for-wound-healing-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Pakistani Lady is the First Female President of World Union for Wound Healing Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/1186180\/dr-abdul-salams-residence-in-britain-is-now-a-national-heritage-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Images<\/a>, another one of Dr. Abdus Salam&#8217;s students, Professor Ian Walmsley said &#8216; &#8216;Salam&#8217;s contribution to the subject is profound commitment to science deep, as exemplified by his founding of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, which has the aim of building science capability and capacity in the developing world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his son Ahmad Salam said the words on the plaque would have made his father very happy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For him, above all else, that was the legacy he wanted to impart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first and only Pakistani to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Science, Dr. Abdus Salam has been bestowed with a big honor by the government of the United Kingdom (UK). The British government has designated the residence of Nobel laureate as a national heritage site. Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the electroweak unification [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/dr-abdus-salams-home-in-london-is-now-a-national-heritage-site\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":234160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"His residence is bestowed with a prestigious 'Blue Plague' by the UK Government ","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Abdus-Salam-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Abdus-Salam-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Abdus-Salam.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Social Media"],"title_text":"Dr. Abdus Salam\u2019s Home in London Is Now A National Heritage Site","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1291&exclude=292322","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292322"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=292322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}