UNTIL I read Gordon Fraser’s excellent I knew just two things about the : he won the Nobel prize for physics in 1979 for his part in developing the electroweak theory which unifies two of the four forces of nature, and he founded the , Italy, to support researchers from developing countries.
Actually, let me add a third fact that I was vaguely aware of but which crystallised after reading this biography: Salam stands as the greatest physicist of the Islamic world for 1000 years. Not since
