Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996 · Pakistan · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
Unified the electromagnetic and weak forces; first Muslim science laureate.
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- Hideki Yukawa
1907 – 1981 · Physics
The meson-exchange picture of forces is the ancestor of gauge-boson unification.
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- Peter Higgs
1929 – 2024 · Physics
Electroweak unification made the Higgs field a testable component of the Standard Model.
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