Abdus Salam: Punjab, physics and international science
Follow Salam’s education in Punjab, his contribution to particle physics and his work to make research less isolated.
Punjab; Britain; Trieste
People · A guide to the archive
Science and research
Follow scientific lives and a research city through education, institutions, published work and documented connections with Punjab.
How to approach this subject
Read the biographies alongside the institutional history of Ludhiana. Keep birthplace, education, later employment and research contribution as separate questions. This allows the evidence to show a person’s changing connections without making a discovery the achievement of an entire nationality, religion or region.
An intentional selection
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Har Gobind Khorana: from Punjab to the genetic code
A biochemist’s route through Punjab’s schools and international laboratories, and the experiments that helped explain how cells make proteins.
Punjab; Britain; Canada; United States
Ludhiana: workshops, neighbourhoods and agricultural science
Ludhiana’s urban history brings manufacturing and agricultural research into the same city. Its changing neighbourhoods and institutions connect local work with wider transformations in Punjab.
Indian Punjab