{"id":11360,"date":"2019-10-03T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:14:07","slug":"salam-the-first-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11360","title":{"rendered":"Salam:  The First ****** Nobel Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I noticed that a recent documentary about Abdus Salam, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/kailoola.com\/salam\/\">Salam: The First ****** Nobel Laureate<\/a>, has just appeared on Netflix, and I spent some time watching it.  The title is a reference to Salam&#8217;s membership in the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, which in Pakistan has been declared heretical, and thus Salam not Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed watching the film, and learned a lot I didn&#8217;t know about Salam, but there&#8217;s not a great deal in the film about his actual work in theoretical physics.  While starting to write more here about the film based on some notes I took while watching it, I noticed that Matin Durrani last year at Physics World wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/abdus-salam-back-in-the-spotlight\/\">excellent detailed review of the film<\/a>, and I recommend you consult that for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Among those interviewed are Chris Isham and Michael Duff, who have interesting comments on what it was like to work with him.  I was pleased to see that one old photograph had him standing in front of a blackboard that prominently featured &#8220;Unitary G-reps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  For another detailed review of the film, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20191014-abdus-salam-the-muslim-science-genius-forgotten-by-history\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I noticed that a recent documentary about Abdus Salam, entitled Salam: The First ****** Nobel Laureate, has just appeared on Netflix, and I spent some time watching it. The title is a reference to Salam&#8217;s membership in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}