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TO GO WITH Pakistan-religion-minority-science-Nobel,FEATURE by Waqar Hussain
This picture taken on July 13, 2012, shows a photograph of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate Professor Abdus Salam (L) receiving the Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden on December 10, 1979, displayed at the government college where professor Salam taught in Lahore. Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won accolades all over the world for his ground breaking research in theoretical physics, is all but forgotten. He was the trailblazer who helped pave the way to the recently hailed discovery of the “God particle” — one of the greatest achievements in science for the last 100 years — but as the world went into overdrive, Pakistan stayed largely silent. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION NO ARCHIVES AFP PHOTO / Arif ALI