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Gordon Fraser - Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

Av Gordon Fraser

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-01-19
  • Mått: 137 x 216 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 434 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780199697120
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Educated Imperial College, London (BSc 1st class honours, Physics and Mathematics, 1964; PhD, Theory of Elementary Particles, 1967) . During the 1960s, Fraser wrote some short-story fiction as a hobby. By 1970 Fraser combined two very different interests by becoming a reporter for Computer Weekly and later returned to science as an in-house writer and editor at major laboratories. From 1980-2002 Fraser was Editor of CERN Courier, the monthly magazine of the international high energy physics community. He has given talks at university science departments, in a mosque, and for TV programmes.

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Review from previous edition Fraser's well researched contribution provides a transparent description on the creation of the standard model that merits attention from physicists and historians alike. Cosmic Anger is highly recommended.

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