Abdus Salam: Setting the Record Straight

Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize, Prof. Abdus Salam has frequently been the target of attacks launched by jealous colleagues and religious extremists.
In this meeting you will hear the views of - and interact with - Prof. Michael Duff, emeritus professor at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the 2017 winner of the Dirac Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics. This will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Qaisar Shafi (theoretical physics) at Delaware University, and Prof. Salam’s former PhD student. He is the winner of Alexander von Humboldt Prize (1997) and member of the American Physical Society.
The context for the event will be laid out by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy.

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  • @anjummirza1452
    @anjummirza145219 күн бұрын

    Dr.Abdus Salam is undoubtedly the greatest scientist and true son of the soil in the sub continent...

  • @zishanraza2761
    @zishanraza276120 күн бұрын

    Actual physicsts are getting only 2k views while lutiya motivational speaker getting ,100k of views

  • @zeeahmad7449
    @zeeahmad744914 күн бұрын

    پاکستان کو ہمیشہ ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام پر فخر رہے گا ❤

  • @SpkamalSpkamal
    @SpkamalSpkamal20 күн бұрын

    He was a brilliant scientist and a true Pakistani He is proud of Pakistan

  • @mohammaddawood456
    @mohammaddawood45619 күн бұрын

    Excellent programme.thanks prof.Hood Bhai and all partners.

  • @writersinnacademiaz696
    @writersinnacademiaz69620 күн бұрын

    Now this is something meaningful. Thanks to the Blackhole for this great contribution. Pakistan is blessed to have people like you.

  • @Philosopher-ey6qg
    @Philosopher-ey6qg19 күн бұрын

    Dr. Rehman Taimur did a fantastic job explaining the controversy

  • @garamiglm2026
    @garamiglm202620 күн бұрын

    Prof Abdus Salam is the pride of South Asia..A proud Pakistani, Prof Salam deserves highest regard for his scientific genius and contributions- a true genius of the rank of Dirac. As an Indian, I feel proud that Prof Salam was once part of my country..He was also kind enough to visit India and meet his friends and teachers. It does not matter what some people including so called leading physicists cook up false stories about Prof Salam, his physics and mathematics speak for itself.. The nobel committee does a detailed evaluation and inputs from leading physicists and experts.. Respect from India to Prof Abdus Salam

  • @ChefbyMistake

    @ChefbyMistake

    20 күн бұрын

    Do you think the Nobel Committee chose him because he was a Brown South Asian man and from an underdeveloped country?

  • @WaddiaS

    @WaddiaS

    20 күн бұрын

    ​@@ChefbyMistake even if it's true (which isn't because they're biased against Asians), he brought Nobel to Pakistan and as a patriotic Pakistani, I consider Salam a national hero.

  • @m.a.5216

    @m.a.5216

    20 күн бұрын

    ​@@ChefbyMistakeno, he was a Genius.

  • @MindRoasterMir
    @MindRoasterMir20 күн бұрын

    Very good program. thanks

  • @loofatar5620
    @loofatar562020 күн бұрын

    Quite sensible arguments. I was also very confused when I heard the lecture of that physicist historian who said Salam did not deserve the prize. I am Pakistani, and would want to know the real truth of scientific work of Salam. The religious aspect of salam's life does not concerns me, he would answer for his own life Infront of God, and I Will answer for my life. It is unfortunate that our religious system of leaders can not separate the two worlds of science and religion. They are indeed the worst of scholars according to Hadeeth that in last ages there would be some religious scholars who would be evil people. But there are good people of religion who recognize the contribution of salam and his scientific genius and give him due credit as a human being. So we should learn from the Salam's work and his scientific theories and try to make our youngsters Excell in physics and mathematical reasoning.

  • @AzizKhan-yt4xc
    @AzizKhan-yt4xc16 күн бұрын

    Doesn't matter whether Pakistanis owned Dr. Salam or not. But truth is that Dr. Salam was a world class physicist. People who in Pakistan are criticizing him doesn't even know how to wrote a scientific paper.

  • @azadprinda3186
    @azadprinda318620 күн бұрын

    Thanks for this video on the great dr abdus salam😊

  • @Outofthisworld794
    @Outofthisworld79418 күн бұрын

    Dr Abdus Salam, like every other scientist, is pride of humanity. Shame on those bigots who are denying his contributions just because of his religious beliefs. This is why we NEED a secular Pakistan.

  • @ishyandmikkischannel8811
    @ishyandmikkischannel88117 күн бұрын

    I was in the same theoretical physics group at Imperial as Salam in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Salam was also a faculty colleague of my father after their PhDs. My father did his PhD in astrophysics at Imperial College in 1949 while Abdus Salam finished his PhD at Cambridge in 1952. I therefore knew all of Salam's colleagues, including Tom Kibble who really was responsible for local symmetry breaking in his 1967 paper and according to Weinberg. Not his own work of 1964 or that of Higgs and others in 19t4. The real breakthrough that led to Steven Weinrberg and Salam's 1967/68 paper was Tom Kibble's paper on local symmetry breaking in 1967. Weinberg credits Tom Kibble's paper as the conceptual breakthrough, and not the simpler 1964 papers of Kibble, Peter Higgs and others. At Imperial College therefore the Higgs boson is known as Higgs-Kibble. Weinberg is clear that it was Kibble's 1967 paper that was the real breakthrough. Now Kibble had his office a few yards from Salam's. And every theoretical physics professor at Imperial told me Salam gave the seminar which resulted in his 1968 paper. There was 0 doubt in anybody's mind. Norman Dombey, the professor who casts doubt was not at Imperial. He was at the University of Sussex. Despite doing a PhD under Feynman at Caltech, for some reason Norman Dombey didn't land a position at either Caltech or Imperial. Maybe be is driven by profession rivalry. Gell-Mann is on record on KZread as saying that even apart from electroweak Salam could have won the Nobel for at least 2 other contributions. He mentions Salam and Ward as having made outstanding contributions to theoretical particle physics. Salam was known for several contributions, while Ward is known to every researcher in Quantum Field Theory as Ward identities. And Weinberg and many others say Tom Kibble should have won a Nobel.too. Now I attended seminars and courses by Tom Kibble. And also David Olive and Chris Isham. And many other extremely highly regarded world class theoretical physicists. They had all been colleagues of Salam. And no one ever dubbed doubted him. And here's more. Even amongst that group, he was looked up to. It's like the best tennis players look up to Roger Federer. The last time I attended a seminar given by him was on the 5th floor theoretical physics common room at Imperial. It was on Chern Simons theory. There wasn't a single question because none were at his level. Even in 1990. Gell-Mann is clear in his KZread videos that Salam would have won the Nobel for a few other pieces of work. By the way, I have many stories of not just Salam, but my father, and their interactions in the 1950s. Salam also told Shahid Javed Burki that if my father hadn't left academia he would have won the Nobel in his area way before he himself he did.

  • @ahamadjamal2412
    @ahamadjamal241216 күн бұрын

    Kudos to Dr Pervaiz Hoodbhoy for arranging a quality discussion on Dr Salam in an environment of intimidation and fear from religious fanatics.

  • @jamshedfbc
    @jamshedfbc20 күн бұрын

    Important session

  • @techiguy797
    @techiguy79720 күн бұрын

    Wow, what a great talk by Qaiser Shafi, the other esteemed professor from ECL and professor Hoodbhoy. Had this been a country loving research education and seriously looking towards these persuits, the Qaiser Raja an idiot could have been silenced by an ordinary teacher.

  • @SamadIqbal-mj4hd
    @SamadIqbal-mj4hd17 күн бұрын

    Thank you, Dr. Parvez Hoodbhoy, guests and organizers.

  • @ChefbyMistake
    @ChefbyMistake20 күн бұрын

    All scientists challenge each other. Abdu’s Salam left Pakistan because of Bhutto.

  • @distracteddasf
    @distracteddasf2 күн бұрын

    Dear Pakistanio, Please don't loose Dr. Parvez Hoodhboy. A gem of a person!!!!!

  • @muqarrabmekan126
    @muqarrabmekan12615 күн бұрын

    Thanks Dr sb. for this excellent program .

  • @PR-pu7pv
    @PR-pu7pv19 күн бұрын

    6.5 K views 70 % views are from India. Now, days, this nation is getting religious crop harvesting as they did in past 😮 Go towards modern education and away from religion 😅

  • @ranakhalil5911
    @ranakhalil59116 күн бұрын

    ماشاءاللہ بہت اچھا پروگرام ہے۔شاید ملک اپنا رخ سیدھا کر سکے

  • @bilalbajwa
    @bilalbajwa17 күн бұрын

    Who is the person in the yellow polo shirt in the front row? He mentioned that Salam contributed towards BCCI FAST as well. I would like to get more info about that.

  • @drfawad302
    @drfawad30215 күн бұрын

    Abdus salam defended islamic ideology through science. It is a great lesson for modern day Muslims.

  • @muhaq755
    @muhaq75518 күн бұрын

    Glashow advanced the idea that the electromagnetic and weak interactions may be unified in a gauge theory based on the group SU(2) × U(1). The problem of generating masses in a manner consistent with gauge invariance was solved later by Weinberg and Salam, using the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking'.

  • @nasirfazal5440
    @nasirfazal544019 күн бұрын

    Please watch Tammur webcast also this regard,very appropriate answer.

  • @jach9653
    @jach965316 күн бұрын

    Excellent program!

  • @syedhussainahmad2232
    @syedhussainahmad22328 күн бұрын

    Prof Hoodboy...please write in Dawn about the Salaam science fair at QAU ,which was cancelled...why no one resisted.

  • @rajamoonis8653
    @rajamoonis86539 күн бұрын

    Excellent effort

  • @AbdulKhan-vc4jj
    @AbdulKhan-vc4jj9 күн бұрын

    Weldon sir great program ❤

  • @MuhammadHusnain1
    @MuhammadHusnain117 күн бұрын

    Thanks Dr. Hud Bhai for this positive effort.

  • @user-vw2ic3um6o
    @user-vw2ic3um6o19 күн бұрын

    جب انسان مذہبی انتہا پسندی کا شکار ہوتا ہے اور مذہبی تعصب اور نفرت عقل کو مار دیتے ہیں تو پھر انسان ایسی ہی حرکتیں کرتا ہے جیسے ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام صاحب کے مخالفین کر رہے ہیں۔

  • @asifsadiqawan
    @asifsadiqawan20 күн бұрын

    ہودبھائی کو پتا ہی نہیں کہ ہمارے پاس ساحل عدیم جیسا فزکس کا ماہر ہے ۔

  • @Theenlightenment54

    @Theenlightenment54

    20 күн бұрын

    Qasier raja v

  • @Philosopher-ey6qg

    @Philosopher-ey6qg

    19 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😢😢

  • @pratikkumar8409

    @pratikkumar8409

    19 күн бұрын

    😂

  • @muhaq755

    @muhaq755

    18 күн бұрын

    😂

  • @qaisarashraf9942

    @qaisarashraf9942

    17 күн бұрын

    😢😢😢😢😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😊

  • @qamarahmed1605
    @qamarahmed160519 күн бұрын

    Dr slam ki mokhalfat krty krty hi aaj Pakistan ki ye halt ho chuki hai.

  • @isakhelvi
    @isakhelvi20 күн бұрын

    Glashow is 92 year old, and loosing his mind.

  • @sg-sq
    @sg-sq19 күн бұрын

    Weinberg acknowledged Salam's independent efforts at the time they received the award, and denied it after so many years when Salam was no longer in this world to respond. This simply shows Weinberg's character and not Salam's plagiarism.

  • @sadiamanzoor4791

    @sadiamanzoor4791

    18 күн бұрын

    Weinberg never denied Salam's contribution. Sheldon Glashow (the third recipient) denied it in an interview published in 2020.

  • @nowie4007
    @nowie400720 күн бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @coldscug
    @coldscug8 күн бұрын

    Very nice excellent

  • @momo19991
    @momo1999117 күн бұрын

    Brilliant Dr. Houdbhoy! I hope Qaisar Raja saw this and is absolutely ashamed of the nonsense he is putting out.

  • @rebasingh258
    @rebasingh25819 күн бұрын

    Pakistan has be En treated very badly by Pakistan because he was a Ahmadiya.

  • @shamsindhi6827
    @shamsindhi682720 күн бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @imtiazdar7787
    @imtiazdar778719 күн бұрын

    *پاکستان میں فوج کی مرضی بغیر کوئی تقریر نہیں کر سکتا، فوج کی مرضی ہو تو کوئی تقریر کرنے سے روک نہیں سکتا*

  • @bestsong9929
    @bestsong992917 күн бұрын

    Abusalam is the greatest scientist ......but unfortunately in Pakistan ...........

  • @kuldeeprajhans2353
    @kuldeeprajhans235318 күн бұрын

    Sahil adeem aur qaiser ahmed raza jaise logo ko hi pakistan deserve karta hai😂😂😂

  • @Luqman-mu5ji
    @Luqman-mu5ji7 күн бұрын

    Hoodbhoy for the rescue

  • @lklalitkapoor
    @lklalitkapoor20 күн бұрын

    Only 3.5 thousand sane viewers in total population of 25 crore people of Pakistan 🇵🇰😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @nayyarazam4983

    @nayyarazam4983

    20 күн бұрын

    most views are from india.

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