Abdus Salam Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
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]
Figure 1.
Portrait of Abdus Salam
. Asimqalmqar, as credited by Commons; existing crop from Abdus.Salam & Syed Qasim Mahmood.jpg. CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, as recorded on the exact Commons File. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.