Ideals and realities : selected essays of Abdus Salam

Author(s)

• Salam, Abdus
• Hassan, Zafar
• Lai, C. H.

Bibliographic Information

Ideals and realities : selected essays of Abdus Salam

editors, Z. Hassan & C.H. Lai

World Scientific, c1984

• hard
• pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. 357-362

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a collection of writings of Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate of Physics, 1979. The writings touch on many different themes, and discuss the social and economic dimensions of science. Difficulties faced by scientists in developing countries and their solutions are also given some insightful analysis. There are also interesting accounts of the International Centre for Theroetical Physics, Trieste, Italy that Professor Salam founded, and science in Islamic nations.

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Details

• NCID: BA01555616
• ISBN:
  • 9971950871
  • 997195088X
• LCCN: 84200336
• Country Code: si
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Singapore
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 369 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC71
  • DC19 : 306/.45
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Physics -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : International Centre for Theoretical Physics -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Science -- Developing countries -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Salam, Abdus, 1926- -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Physicists -- Pakistan -- Biography -- Addresses, essays, lectures