Theoretical physicist Abdus Salam was born
Abdus Salam, (born Jan. 29, 1926, Jhang Maghiāna, Punjab, India [now in Pakistan]—died Nov. 21, 1996, Oxford, Eng.), Pakistani nuclear physicist who was the co-recipient with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism.
Salam attended the Government College at Lahore, and in 1952 he receive ...Read More
Anton Chekhov was born
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov was a part-time assistant in his father's business and also a singer in a church choir. At age 15, he was abandoned by his bankrupt father and lived alone for 3 years while ...Read More
