Cosmic Anger

Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-920846-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Physicists, and those interested in Islam and the Indian sub-continent. Readers of scientific biographies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser

Fraser, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: A turban in Stockholm
2: The tapestry of a sub-continent
3: Messiahs, Mahdis and Ahmadis
4: A mathematical childhood
5: From mathematics to physics
6: The men who knew infinities
7: Not so splendid isolation
8: 'Think of something better'
9: The arrogant theory
10: Uniting nations of science
11: Trieste
12: Electroweak
13: Quark Liberation Front
14: Demise
15: Prejudice and pride
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Physicist turned science writer, Gordon Fraser aims to convey difficult concepts without compromising the underlying science. After a first-class degree in physics and mathematics and while working towards his PhD in theoretical physics at London's Imperial College in the mid-1960s, he wrote short-story fiction as a hobby. By 1970, it was clear that he was not cut out for scientific research, and he spun together two very different strands of interest by becoming a
reporter on a weekly UK newspaper for the computer industry. He later returned to science as an in-house editor at major laboratories. Working in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1980 - 2002 he was Editor of the CERN Courier, the monthly magazine of the international high energy physics community. He has
been a visiting lecturer in Science Communication at several UK universities.