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Dr Abdus Salam’s Sculpture Unveiled to Place at IAEA HQ

Islamabad: Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate, physicist Dr Abdus Salam’s bust was unveiled to place at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters in Vienna.

According to details, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano unveiled the bust of Pakistan’s renowned physicist Dr Salam as IAEA’s 61st general conference is currently underway in Vienna, a Foreign Office (FO) handout said.

The bust will be placed at the IAEA HQ alongside those of other notable figures, most of them scientists, who were instrumental in the promotion of nuclear science and technology, according to the FO.

Dr Salam, Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate, was an ardent proponent of broadening the base of scientific knowledge in the developing world and an advocate of “Atoms for Peace”, the FO statement said.

Salam was awarded inĀ 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Glashow and Weinberg. He was also the founder of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy,” the FO added.

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