Dr. Abdul Salam The First Islamic Noble Laurete "When I was at school in about 1936 I remember the teacher giving us a lecture on the basic forces in Nature. He began with gravity. Of course, we had all heard of gravity. Then he went on to say “Electricity. Now there is a force called electricity, but it doesn’t live in our town Jhang, it lives in the capital town of Lahore, 100 miles to the east”. He had just heard of the nuclear force and he said: “that only exists in Europe”. This is to demonstrate what it was like to be taught in a developing country". On Jan 29, 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam — ‘servant of peace’ Right from the start, Salam was deeply invested in his academic growth. At 14, he scored record-breaking marks in Punjab University's matriculation entrance exams. I remember returning home around 2 p.m. in the afternoon on my bicycle from...