20th Century

How a Kitchen Fire Won a Physics Nobel

A cooking accident in a Pakistani professor's cramped apartment in 1966 sparked one of the most important discoveries in modern physics.

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South Asia20th CenturyScientific DiscoveryPhysicsPakistanNobel PrizeParticle PhysicsAbdus SalamMathematicsAccidental DiscoveryFundamental ForcesCERN

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