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ABDUS SALAM: The Nobel Genius Pakistan Lost
From a small town in Punjab to the grand halls of Cambridge and CERN, Abdus Salam’s life was a journey defined by brilliance, conviction, and quiet resilience. As the architect of the electroweak theory and Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize–winning scientist in the sciences, Salam reshaped our understanding of the universe while championing science as a global public good. This documentary explores his groundbreaking discoveries, his belief in harmony between faith and reason, his exile after 1974, and his tireless mission to empower scientists from the developing world, revealing how one man’s pursuit of unity changed both physics and humanity.
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