Abdus Salam developed the gauge-theory unification of the weak interaction and electromagnetic interaction. The common electroweak framework relates charged and neutral currents, while spontaneous symmetry breaking accounts for massive weak carriers and a massless photon. His authored lecture traces how symmetry principles become quantitative relations among apparently different interactions. This is unification through one underlying structure, rather than a claim that weak and electromagnetic processes have identical observed strengths.[ref]
Gauge Unification of Fundamental Forces by Abdus Salam. 1979 authored lecture, electroweak gauge unification, symmetry breaking and experimental tests
Portrait of Abdus Salam
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Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the field of particle physics. He was born on January 29, 1926, in Jhang, British India, and died on November 21, 1996. Salam is best known for his work in the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg.
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