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Dr. Abdus Salam shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory. With whom did he share this prestigious award?

A) Peter Higgs and François Englert
B) Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg
C) Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
D) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose

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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