Bhupati Chakrabarti

The partition of India in 1947 was a huge historical event that changed the course of life of so many people. A wide number of human stories are connected to the partition of India. The courses of life for a large population changed overnight. And a future Nobel laureate of Physics, Abdus Salam, is also possibly another example of this life-changing incident. He was born in a middle-class family in the undivided Punjab province of India exactly one hundred years ago and observed the partition of the country as a teenager. He has written and talked about those days in a candid manner. His life took a very different turn that led him to the pinnacle of physics research when he went on to share the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics along with two other physicists from the USA, Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow. As per the Nobel citation, the Prize was awarded to them “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current” …read more on NOPR