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 corecipient with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains