1979

Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth: 29 January, 1926 Place of birth: Jhang, Pakistan Educational Career Government College, Jhang and Lahore (1938-1946) M.A. (Punjab University) Foundation Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge (1946- 1949) B.A. Honours Double first in Mathematics (Wrangler) and Physics Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1952) Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics Awarded Smith’s Prize by the University of Cambridge…

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Banquet speech

Abdus Salam’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleagues, Professor Glashow and Weinberg, I thank the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences for the great honour and the courtesies extended to us, including the courtesy to me of being addressed in…

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Banquet speech

Allan M. Cormack’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Godfrey Hounsfield has asked me to speak for both of us. We would most respectfully request Your Majesty to convey to the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet our intense gratitude for the…

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Bibliography

Major works in Greek Prosanatolizmi, 1940 Ilios o protos, 1943 Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Albanias, 1945 To axion esti, 1959 Exi kai mia tipsis yia ton ourano, 1960 Thanatos ke anastasis tou Konstandinou Paleologhou, 1971 To fotodhendro ke i dhekati tetarti omorfia, 1971 Maria Nefeli, 1978 Tria poiemata me simea…

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Poetry

Excerpt from The Axion Esti From The Gloria /- – -/      PRAISED BE Myrto standing on the stone parapet facing the sea      like a beautiful eight or a clay pitcher holding a straw hat in her hand      The white and porous middle of day the down of sleep lightly ascending      the faded gold inside the…

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