ISBN:
9789814412766
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 369 p.)
,
ill. (some col.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Salam, Abdus, 1926 - 1996 Ideals and realities
DDC:
530.0924
Keywords:
Salam, Abdus 1926-1996
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Physicists Biography
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Pakistan
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Electronic books
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Physics
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Science Developing countries
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Physicists -- Pakistan -- Biography
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Physicists ; Pakistan ; Biography
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Physics
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Salam, Abdus ; 1926-1996
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Science ; Developing countries
;
Electronic books
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Wissenschaft
Abstract:
This is a collection of writings of Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate of Physics, 1979. The writings touch on many different themes, and discuss the social and economic dimensions of science. Difficulties faced by scientists in developing countries and their solutions are also given some insightful analysis. There are also interesting accounts of the International Centre for Theroetical Physics, Trieste, Italy that Professor Salam founded, and science in Islamic nations.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- The Less-Developed World: How Can We be Optimists? -- I SALAM THE MAN -- The Lonely Scientists - Thinking Ahead with Abdus Salam -- The question is how. -- Intuitive. -- But where did you yourself come from? -- This is a temporary condition,of course. -- How do you make it start? -- What are the numbers like? How many young Pakistanis are studying technical subjects? -- Will these men go back to Pakistan? -- Not even agriculturalists? -- That seems absurd. -- And meanwhile, the thing is to encourage the glamour sciences? -- Often this seems to mean into theoretical physics. -- What do you mean, saving? -- He has students but no teachers. -- This is what your new institute will try to do. -- Do they also represent a different way of thinking? -- So you see a third group in both an intellectual and a political sense. -- How was the idea received then? -- But it wasn't set up at that time, was it? -- Would that be desirable? -- It does seem strangely remote from the practical world as away to help a developing country. -- The important thing is to develop a scientific tradition, no matter what science it is ? -- A slow process, A generation. -- A Man of Science- Abdus Salam -- Man of Two Worlds by Robert Walgate -- Abdus Salamby John Ziman -- II SCIENCE AND THE WORLD -- Diseases of the Rich and Diseases of the Poor -- Ideals and Realities -- The New International Economic Order -- Food -- Oceans -- Ill SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION -- Technology and Pakistan's Attack on Poverty -- Advanced Scientific Research in Developing Countries -- Towards a Scientific Research and Development Policy for Pakistan -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. There are three things wrong with Pakistan's research effort in science and technology: -- 2. Small absolute size of science.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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