The Rearview Podcast | Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate, Physicist and Heretic

The Rearview Podcast | Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate, Physicist and Heretic

What does a borrowed cow have to do with a Nobel Prize? And how did a committed atheist set a devout Muslim on the path to becoming one of the great physicists of the twentieth century? This is the story of Abdus Salam born in 1926 in Jhang, a mud-walled town in the Punjab, the son of a poor schoolteacher who studied by the light of an oil lamp. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first Muslim ever to win a Nobel in the scien…