مسلمانوں کا نیوٹن ۔ ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام — Page 419
409 version of spontaneous symmetry breaking۔Like Saint Patrick in Ireland, they had driven Salam's snakes from the land of broken symmetry۔Quite independently, Abdus and Steve each seized the idea and formulated the electroweak theory of leptons۔Their brilliant creation sank like a lead balloon, to be resurrected much later after (1) 'tHooft and Veltman proved the Salam-Weinberg conjecture of renormalizability, (2) quarks became politically correct, and (3) our experimental colleagues (many of them in this room!) were at last convinced to search for and find the promised neutral currents۔Despite his many phenomenal triumphs, Abdus was never satisfied with the mere hint of unification offered by the electroweak model۔Along with his subcontinental pal Jogesh Pati, he was the first to exhibit a coherent theory of all of the elementary-particle forces in their gauged glory---today's anonymous standard model۔And, it was Salam and Pati who insisted that there must be even more broken symmetry with the still-current notion of lepton-ness as a fourth color۔Why not $SU(4)$, they asked? Or $SU(5)$, we answered۔Why not, indeed? In October 1979, Abdus, Steve and I got our telegrams from Stockholm۔Time Magazine quoted Salam as being proud to be the first Moslem to win a Nobel Prize۔Steve and I sent Abdus a telegram of congratulation with the comment: "Didn't know that Sadat had converted۔" In fact, Abdus was the first Moslem Laureate in science, but to his great chagrin, there has not yet been another۔Salam had repeatedly called for a renaissance of Islamic science and an end to the scientifically intolerant attitude of {taqlid۔} He would have been a strong supporter of the newly- conceived University of the Middle East۔Pious Moslem that he was, Abdus proudly brought both his wives and all their children to the Nobel ceremonies۔"Why not four wives?" I asked۔“Two are quite enough," said Abdus, adding that British tax law permitted no more than one marital exemption۔Our Swedish hosts were a bit concerned that the press would discover and reveal their polygamous choice, but apparently they never did۔Nor did the question ever arise of which Mrs۔Salam should accompany the king as he led the procession down the grand staircase: We three Laureates were listed alphabetically, so it was my wife Joan who got the royal arm۔But it was Abdus who offered the first toast۔Incidentally, while all the other Laureates were dressed as conventional penguins, Abdus adorned himself in glorious Pakistani regalia, from a swirling white turban to turned-up golden slippers right out of Arabian Nights۔They were immensely uncomfortable and Abdus took them off as soon as possible۔Joan found the slippers fascinating and told Abdus as much۔Little did she know that he would send her a brand-new (and equally painful) pair as a keepsake a few years later۔I may remind you that the festivities that began in Sweden culminated here at CERN, where Abdus, Steve and I were received as heroes۔