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Dr. Abdus Salam, Pakistan's only Nobel laureate in science, shared his Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979. Along with whom did he share the prize for their contributions to the electroweak unification theory?

A) Peter Higgs and François Englert
B) Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg
C) Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
D) Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig

Explanation

Dr. Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for their independent but complementary contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

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