Brief Biography Of Dr. Salam's Quantum Electrodynamics

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Dr. Salam was born in the small village of Jhang, present day Pakistan in 1926 where he attended the first few years of school. His father was an official in the Department of Education for the poor farming district. A fast learner Dr. Salam attended the University of the Punjab at the age of 13 and at the age of 14 he received the highest numbers ever recorder for the Matriculation Examination at the university. Due to his outstanding grades he received a full scholarship to the Government College, University of Punjab.

In 1946 he obtained his MA in physics and then that very same year he was awarded with a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge where he got a double BA with honors in mathematics and physics in 1949 and then a Ph. D in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge in 1952. At this point in his he had already received the Smith's Prize by the University of Cambridge for the …show more content…

All forces or interactions of nature are thought to be comprised of 4 basic forces, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong nuclear force, and the Weak nuclear force. General Relativity describes the most familiar of these forces, Gravity, which governs the rules that the world of the 'the large' follows i.e. planets, stars, balls, things not on the atomic level. But Electrodynamics deals with the other 3 forces which govern the 'world of the small' as in the sub-atomic world. Like the Strong nuclear force which is responsible for 'gluing' protons and neutrons together inside of atoms, Electromagnetism, which produces light, electricity, and magnetic attractions. And finally the Weak nuclear force which deals with radiation which is caused by radioactive decay. So it is belived that if the hands of time are turned back far enough all 4 of these theories should unite in one theory know as the Unified Field theory, or the unification of the fundamental forces of

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