Physicists who died on November 21

Take a focused look at the physicists who passed away on November 21. Dive into curated bios, achievements, and cultural milestones verified by our editors.

• 1996 Abdus Salam

  Abdus Salam was a pioneering Pakistani theoretical physicist renowned for his significant role in the development of the electroweak unification theory, which forms part of the Standard Model of particle physics. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg, for their contributions to the theory predicting the unification of the weak … [bio]