The award of medals by the President, Lord Porter, O.M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1990

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Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article 1991The award of medals by the President, Lord Porter, O.M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1990Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.2431–3http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0001SectionRestricted accessReportThe award of medals by the President, Lord Porter, O.M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1990 Published:22 January 1991https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0001AbstractThe Copley Medal is awarded to Professor A. Salam, K. B. E., F. R. S., in recognition of his work on the symmetries of the laws of nature, and especially the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Professor Salam has made outstanding and influential contributions to elementary particle theory over a period of 40 years. His early work included the completion of Dyson’s proof of the renormalization of quantum electrodynamics, and his work on parity violation, dispersion relations and SU (3) invariance. This work contributed greatly to the development of elementary particle theory, but his major contribution was the proposal, in parallel with S. Weinberg, of the electroweak theory, unifying quantum electrodynamics with the weak interactions between atomic particles. That theory, the first to bring together the theories of the atomic forces, received spectacular confirmation through the discovery at CERN in 1983 of W+ and Z intermediate bosons.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. Next Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetails This Issue22 January 1991Volume 243Issue 1306 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0001Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:0962-8452Online ISSN:1471-2954History: Published online01/01/1997Published in print22/01/1991 License:Scanned images copyright © 2017, Royal Society Citations and impact Large datasets are available through Proceedings B's partnership with Dryad