Multiple choice general knowledge history

First Pakistani national to win Noble prize

  1. Shirin Ebadi

  2. Ahmed Zewail

  3. Muhammad Yunus

  4. Abdus Salam
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Explanation

Abdus Salam was indeed the first Pakistani national to win a Nobel Prize, receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. He shared the prize with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for their contributions to the electroweak unification theory, which explains the relationship between electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. The other options are notable Nobel laureads but from different countries.

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