مسلمانوں کا نیوٹن ۔ ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام — Page 420
410 a century later, Salam was both proud and delighted when the student won a Nobel Prize just one year after the teacher۔Gary had to use a cutoff to get a finite result---unless the vector boson had a particular anomalous magnetic moment corresponding to gyromagnetic ratio two۔For this value and only for this value the divergence cancels and the result is manifestly finite۔And, this was precisely the anomalous moment predicted by a Yang-Mills gauge theory! If one divergence cancelled in a gauge theory, maybe all of them did۔So I concocted and published a spurious argument alleging that softly- broken Yang-Mills theories are renormalizable۔Following the Gilberts' advice to meet their beloved guru, I accepted Salam's invitation to present my results at Imperial College۔After my talk, which seemed well received, Salam brought me to his home for a wonderful dinner his wife had prepared۔When I returned to Copenhagen, two preprints awaited me: one by Salam, the other by Kamefuchi---both of them pointing out my silly error۔Years later, Abdus confided to me that this was the reason he had not read my next (and somewhat better) electroweak paper۔It was a good excuse! In 1962, Feza Gursey organized a marvellous Turkish summer school at Roberts College by the beautiful Bosporus۔Salam and I were among the invited speakers۔It was an exciting time in particle physics۔A few months earlier, the higher symmetry sweepstakes had been won by the scheme of strong interactions devised by Yuval Ne'eman (another of Salam's remarkable students), and independently, by Murray Gell-Mann۔It had been a strong field: The also-rans included Schwinger's global symmetry, Behrend's $G_2$, Tiomno's $SO(7)$, and Salam \& Ward's symplectic hedge bet۔$SU(3)$ \`a la Sakata (later pursued by Salam and Ward) was somewhat closer to the mark۔My talks explicated the intricacies of the eightfold way the old name for flavor SU(3)], including those I had just worked out with Sidney Coleman۔Abdus used his lectures to describe his just-completed exploration of broken symmetry with Jeffrey Goldstone and Weinberg۔Salam seemed absolutely convinced of the central role played by spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, although he could not yet handle the seemingly unavoidable Goldstone boson, which he would later describe as "a snake in the grass ready to strike۔" Our friendship blossomed as we wandered about the scenic splendors and seedier side streets of downtown Istanbul, dreaming together of an eventual and obligatory synthesis of weak and electromagnetic forces, and of the next wondrously imaginative Turkish dinner۔Of course, we realized all too well that our old ideas (his several papers with John Ward and mine at Copenhagen) were likely to be consigned to the dustbin of history۔Two years later, Higgs (as well as Brout \& Englert, and somewhat later, Tom Kibble and his collaborators) surprised the world with their discovery of the gauged