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381 Professor Salam's Legacy Randjbar-Daemi and Fahim Hussain Two of Prof۔Abdus Salam's long-time colleagues reminisce about the founder and the driving force behind the ICTP۔"As a scientist, Salam always had a wide range of interests", says Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi, an Iranian scientist who heads the ICTP's High Energy Physics Section۔Daemi first met Salam in 1976 and worked closely with him from the early 1980's until Salam's death۔"His name, however, will forever be tied to the theory that has come to be known as the Standard Model, which is one of the greatest intellectual achievements of this century۔The theory represents the cumulative effort of many imaginative thinkers who sought to discover what the physical world is made of and how it works۔" "This endeavor, "Randjbar-Daemi observes, "is very much in the European tradition۔As a result, much of the work was carried out in the wealthy universities of Europe and North America۔" "But among the creators of this intellectual system are representatives from other, less wealthy parts of the world۔" Together with John Strathdee of the ICTP, Salam in the mid 1970's invented a mathematical framework of super-symmetry known as super-space۔And, in 1979, Salam shared the Nobel Prize with Sheldon Glashow and Stephen Weinberg for the mathematical and conceptual unification of the electromagnetic and the weak forces - concepts proven to be correct by accelerator experiments in Europe and the United States۔Then, during the 1980's and the early 1990's, Salam worked on various aspects of supersymmetry and superstrings۔As Randjbar notes, “Unification was the guiding principle of Salam's scientific thought۔He was confident that the new theories of supersymmetry, developed during the 1970's, would permit the ultimate unification of all forces of nature۔" Randjbar still marvels at the speed at which Salam could join an entirely new field of research۔He recalls, for example, that "in 1984, Michael Green of Queen Mary College in London and John Schwarz of Caltech in the US circulated a preprint that launched the first superstring revolution۔"Their work made substantial use of the 10-dimensional supergravity theories۔"Salam asked us to examine the same quantum mechanical consistency problems in models of less than 10-dimensions۔We soon constructed a 6- dimensional model and we sent our findings to the editors of Physics Letters B less than 10 weeks after they had received the breakthrough essay۔" "This gives you some idea of the speed with which Salam and the ICTP would enter new fields", Randjbar observes۔"He was always fired by an intense enthusiasm towards everything that was new and challenging۔" Unification and speed characterized Salam's work as a promoter of science in the developing world as well۔