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Adams Prize
The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge. It is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguished research in the Mathematical Sciences.
The prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams. It was endowed by members of St John's College and was approved by the senate of the university in 1848 to commemorate Adams' controversial role in the discovery of the planet Neptune
conferred to Salam in his lifetime.
- Nobel Prize in Physics (Stockholm, Sweden) (1979)
- Hopkins Prize (Cambridge University) for "the most outstanding contribution to Physics during 1957–1958"
- Adams Prize (Cambridge University) (1958)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1959)
- Smith's Prize (Cambridge University) (1950)
- Sitara-e-Pakistan by the President of Pakistan for contribution to science in Pakistan (1959)
- Pride of Performance Award