First __ Nobel Laureate Pakistan shuns Higgs boson pioneer http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2012/07/09/pakistan-shuns-higgs-boson-pioneer Here are some excerpts: "The pioneering work of Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, helped lead to the apparent discovery of the Higgs boson last week. But the late physicist is no hero at home, where his name has been stricken from school textbooks." "Salam, a child prodigy born in 1926 in what was to become Pakistan after the partition of British-controlled India, won more than a dozen international prizes and honours. In 1979, he was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for his work on the so-called Standard Model of particle physics, which theorises how fundamental forces govern the overall dynamics of the universe. He died in 1996." "Salam’s life, along with the fate of the 3 million other Ahmadis in Pakistan, drastically changed in 1974 when parliament amended the constitution to declare that members of the ...