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Having suggested by Professor Abdus Salam to the Government of Pakistan, it was established by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission's chairman Mr. Munir Ahmad Khan. An annual college based summer camp, it is organised by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and National Center For Physics while it is sponsored by International Center for ...
Mohammad Abdus Salam [4] [5] [6] NI(M) SPk (/ s æ ˈ l æ m /; pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) [7] was a Pakistani theoretical physicist.He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. [8]
Edward Stone presents the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH) model to President Ayub Khan in 1961.. The establishment of the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (Pinstech) was embodiment of the Atoms for Peace initiative in 1953 and a long-sought initiative led by Abdus Salam who was lobbying for a professional physical laboratory since 1951. [8]
The Abdus Salam Chair in Physics, named after the Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Abdus Salam is an honorary chair in physics at the university. Starting out as a semi-autonomous institute, it became operational in March 2000 with the efforts of Ishfaq Ahmad , a lifelong friend of Salam.
The same month of March, Abdus Salam and Munir Ahmad Khan set up a plant to manufacture fissile explosive lenses. In April 1974, Abdus Salam formed another group, Laser Physics Group (LPG), headed by Shaukat Hameed Khan. [32] The Laser Physics Group was charged to carry out research and discover a process to separate NU into EU and DU.
The next landmark under Dr. Abdus Salam was the establishment of PINSTECH – Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, at Nilore near Islamabad. The principal facility there was a 5 MW research reactor, commissioned in 1965 and consisting of the PARR-I , which was upgraded to 10 MWe by Nuclear Engineering Division under Munir Ahmad ...
A commission to study the upper atmosphere and rocketry was established under Abdus Salam [16] and Ishrat Usmani [17] as its chairman with nuclear engineers from PAEC, Tariq Mustafa and Salim Mehmud, becoming its first members in 1961 through the "Space Sciences Research Wing" of PAEC. [18]
The National Centre for Physics [nb 1] is a federally funded research institute and national laboratory co-located near Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan [1] [2]. Founded in 1999, [1] the site is dedicated for understanding and advancement of the physical sciences and mathematical logic – the site is located in Islamabad in Pakistan.