Abdus Salam
Physicist from Jhang who shared the Nobel Prize in 1979 for unifying two of the forces of nature.
Abdus Salam was born in 1926 and grew up in Jhang, the son of a schoolteacher; at fourteen got the highest marks ever recorded in the Punjab matriculation exam. He studied at Government College Lahore and at Cambridge.
He founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste in 1964 to give scientists from poor countries a place to work. In 1979 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for the theory that unites the electromagnetic and weak forces, the first Nobel won by a Pakistani.
He was an Ahmadi, and after 1974, when Pakistan declared the Ahmadis non-Muslim, he was sidelined at home. He died at Oxford in 1996 and is buried at Rabwah, where the word Muslim was effaced from his gravestone.