Dr. Abdus Salam was a cheap schmoozer

Intro
Recently, Qaiser Raja did a really good expose’ on Dr. Abdus Salam and his shenanigans via Paul Dombey. In terms of being a schmoozer, Dr. Abdus Salam used ICTP’s funds to woo members of the Nobel Prize committee, like Paul Dirac and Waller, with all expense paid trips to Trieste. In fact, Waller visited every single summer for about 10 years, all expenses paid. Paul Dirac even had his birthday celebrated therein (1972) via huge parties wherein most likely alcohol was consumed and food was thrown around lavishly. In fact, the entire idea of the ICTP seems to be a scam to steal scientist from developing countries and use them in the West accordingly. But why were they wasting money on such lavishness? Nevertheless, it worked out for Dr. Abdus Salam, he used the ICTP to fraternize with other famous physicists like Werner Heisenberg, Eugene Paul Wigner, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Hendrik Casimir and Rudolf Peierls.

From 1971 until 1978, Paul Dirac nominated Dr. Abdus Salam for the Nobel Prize on various accounts. In 1976, Erik Wilhelm Hulthén became the head of the Nobel Prize Committee and Salam devised a scheme that most likely land him the Nobel Prize. Dr. Salam even jokingly prayed to God for success in his diabolical scheme. Frank Close even tells a stories wherein Dr. Salam was dying to be associated with Weinberg and his theories.

Yet again, in 1978, Paul Dirac wrote a letter of Recommendation and nominated Dr. Abdus Salam to win a Nobel Prize. In 1979, Dr. Abdul Salam won the Nobel Prize with 2 others, Glashow and Weinberg.

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1978
Bailin and N. Dombey, NATURE 271 20 (1978). 5 Letter from AS to N.Dombey, 26 January 1978 E659 Salam Archive. Page 3. 3. “particular neutral.

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Handwritten letter by Paul Dirac in 1978 for the nomination of Abdus Salam as a candidate for the Nobel prize for Physics | DigiNole (fsu.edu)