The Abdus Salam Award (sometimes called the Salam Prize), is a most prestigious

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that is awarded annually to

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i nationals to the field of chemistry, mathematics,

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. The award is awarded to the scientists who are resident in Pakistan, below 35 years of age on 31 December of the year for which the Prize was to be awarded. It is to consist of a certificate giving a citation and a cash award of

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1,000. It is to be awarded on the basis of the collected research and/or a technical essay written specially for the Prize The Award is a brainchild of

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Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

's students Dr. Riazuddin, Dr.

Fayyazuddin Fayyazuddin, also spelled as Fayyaz Uddin ( ur, فياض الدين born 10 November 1930), is a Pakistani theoretical physicist, emeritus professor, specialising in theoretical physics and mathematical physics at Quaid-e-Azam University campus ...

and Dr.

Asghar Qadir Asghar Qadir ( ur, اصغر قادر born 23 July 1946) ''HI'', ''SI'', ''FPAS'', is a Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialised in mathematical physics and physical cosmology. He is considered one of the top mathemati ...

who first presented the idea to

in 1979. Abdus Salam, who felt that he had no right to use the

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for personal purposes but that it must be used to further his mission of development of Science in the Third World. Abdus Salam specially put aside money to help Pakistan and Pakistani students. In 1980, Prof. Salam asked Prof. Fayyazuddin and Dr. Asghar Qadir to formulate the rules and procedures for a Prize to be awarded to young Pakistani scientists for their research in the basic sciences. Professor

is currently the Secretary of Salam Prize Committee at School of Natural Sciences (SNS) in

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(NUST).

Recipients

*1981: Dr. Nazma Ikram (Maiden name: Dr. Nazma Masud) – (Physics) *''No award was given by Abdus Salam in 1982. According to him none of the nominations came close to the 1981 award winner Dr. Nazma Ikram.'' *1984: Dr. Pervaiz Amirali Hoodbhoy – (Mathematics) *1985: Dr.

Mujahid Kamran Syed Mujahid Kamran (born 23 January 1951) is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a former vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a professor of Physics and previously served as the chairman of the Physics ...

- (Physics) *1985: Dr.

Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, Ph.D. (Urdu: ; June 12, 1937— July 9, 1992), was a Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes that expanded the neutron-deficient side of the atomic chart. Some of the isotope ...

– (Physics) *1986: Dr.

Muhammad Suhail Zubairy Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, HI, SI, FPAS (born 19 October 1952), is a University Distinguished Professor as of 2014 in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair ...

– (Physics) *1986: Dr. Bina S. Siddiqui – (Chemistry) *1987: Dr.

Qaiser Mushtaq Qaiser Mushtaq (born 28 February 1954), ( D.Phil.(Oxon), ASA, KIA), is a Pakistani mathematician and academic who has made numerous contributions in the field of Group theory and Semigroup. He has been vice-chancellor of The Islamia Universit ...

– (Mathematics) *1990: Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhry– (Chemistry) *1991: Dr. Ashfaque H. Bokhari – (Mathematics) *1994: Dr. Anwar-ul Hassan Gilani – (Biology) *1997: Dr.

- (Mathematics) *1998: Dr. Naseer Shahzad – (Mathematics) *1999: Dr. Tasawar Hayat – (Mathematics) *2000: Dr. Rabia Hussain – (Biology) *2001: Dr. Farhan Saif – (Physics) *2002: Dr. Muhammad Arif Malik - (Chemistry) *2003: Dr. Ghulam Shabbir - (Mathematics) *2009: Dr. Naseer-Ud-Din Shams – (Physics) *2009: Dr. Tayyab Kamran – (Mathematics) *2010: Dr. Muhammad Tahir - (Biology) *2012: Dr.

Amer Iqbal Amer Iqbal is a Pakistani American theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics. Biography Amer Iqbal has a Doctorate in Theoretical physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He ca ...

— (Physics) *2012: Dr. Hafiz Zia-ur-Rehman - (Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. *2013: Dr. Rahim Umar - (Mathematics), Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology.

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