アブダス・サラーム伝：パキスタン初のノーベル賞受賞科学者 Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - the First Muslim Nobel Scientist

Fraser, Gordon

Oxford University Press（2012/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199697120
• DDC分類 530.092

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. 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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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