Abdus Salam: A Reappraisal. PART I. How to Win the Nobel Prize

Abstract

Abdus Salam's correspondence during his time as Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is held in the Abdus Salam Archive of the Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics+. I use this correspondence to discuss his contribution to the theory of electromagnetic and weak interactions for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.