مسلمانوں کا نیوٹن ۔ ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام — Page 421
411 Presented at CERN, 23 Sep 1997 Memories of Abdus Salam Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate This work [HUTP-97/A062] was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant NSF-PHYS-92-18167۔} It sometimes seems that I have always been at CERN; whether as a young postdoc in 1959, as a visiting---and generously paid---scientist, as a member of the SPC, or as an occasional and always warmly welcomed guest۔I am especially proud to have been invited back today for this moving salute to the memory of a great scientist and humanitarian۔My encounters with Abdus were all too few and far between, but they extended over five decades۔Our relationship, most appropriately, was a weak interaction with a very long lifetime۔I miss Abdus, and will always remember the scent of attar of roses that he was never without۔Our scientific interests often overlapped, sometimes somewhat uncomfortably, but we were always fast friends and mutually supportive colleagues in science۔We coulda, shoulda, and woulda, but I regret that Abdus and I never actually collaborated in print or by correspondence۔I visited him only twice in London, twice again in Trieste, and otherwise saw him only at conferences and summer schools, or as a fellow member of the CERN Science Policy Committee۔In addition, we met four times in Stockholm: At a remarkable conference just prior to our awards; at our own very special occasion; once again when Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer (and CERN itself) were honored for the discovery of all three intermediate vector bosons, thereby justifying our own awards; and lastly, at a grand reunion in Stockholm not so long ago۔Although our face-to-face meetings could be counted on our fingers and toes, Abdus and I knew each other very well۔My colleagues at this meeting will undoubtedly recall Abdus as an inspirational mentor, as a world-renowned scientist, as the creator of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and its guiding spirit for 30 years, and as a champion of science and technology in the Third World۔I would take this opportunity to tell you of a few personal and memorable moments I have enjoyed with one of the kindest, gentlest and most gracious people I have ever known۔In 1955, soon after I began my career in physics as Julian Schwinger's graduate student, I heard tales of a marvelous and mysterious man of the East from Wally and Celia Gilbert, who had just moved from Cambridge England to Cambridge Massachussetts۔Wally was a Junior Fellow at Harvard as he completed the doctoral research program he had begun under Salam's guidance۔Wally got his degree with Abdus, became a promising professor of formal theoretical physics at Harvard, and then turned his attention to hands-on molecular biology۔A quarter of