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many papers have been published in "Ideals and Realities" (*)
and in "Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries" (**)


1961
Address delivered as President at the XIII Annual All Pakistan Science Conference. University of Dacca, Dacca (Dhaka), Pakistan, 11 January 1961
Technology and Pakistan's Attack on Poverty (* & **)
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1962
Speech delivered at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Annual Conference. Vienna, 1962
Need for an International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (*)
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1964
Address delivered at the University of California, San Diego, at the invitation of Professor Roger Revelle, Dean of Research and Leader of President Kennedy's team for the study of salinity and water-logging in West Pakistan. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, March 1964
Pakistan and Technical Development
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The Less-Developed World: How can we be Optimists?
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1965
Iqbal memorial lectures delivered on Radio Pakistan. Lahore, Pakistan, March 1965
Symmetry Concepts in Modern Physics: Iqbal Memorial Lectures
PDF (english - version 1)
PDF (english - version 2) PDF (italian)
Presented as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan at the 10th Anniversary AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Summer Scientific Seminar on Science in the Sixties. Cloudcroft, NM, 14-25 June 1965
Science and Technology in the Emerging Nations
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Address delivered as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan at the Science Conference. Swat Valley, Pakistan, 26 August 1965
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1966
Address delivered at the International Symposium on Science and Society in South Asia. Rockefeller University, New York, NY, May 1966
Problems of advanced scientific research in Developing Countries
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Speech delivered at the 5th Annual Eastern Theoretical Physics Conference. Providence, RI, 1966
International Collaboration in Physics (*)
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1967
Presidential address delivered as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan, on the occasion of the Inauguration of the International Seminar on Low Energy Nuclear Physics. Dacca (Dhaka), Pakistan, 16-25 January 1967
Nuclear Physics in Pakistan
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
17th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Ronneby, Sweden, 3-8 September 1967
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1968
Response upon the Presentation of the Atoms for Peace Award. Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 14 October 1968
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1969
Nobel Symposium 14. Stockholm, 15-20 September 1969
The advancement of science for the Developing Countries
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
1970
Address delivered as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan, at the XIIIth Meeting of the Pakistan National Science Council. Islamabad, 8-9 September 1970
Towards a scientific research and development policy for Pakistan
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2) PDF (version 3)
IAEA, Vienna, 24 September 1970
Theoretical physics and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
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1971
Presented before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, at its 12th Meeting with the Panel on Science and Technology. Washington, DC, 26-28 January 1971
International cooperation in the physical sciences (with particular reference to Developing Countries)
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1972
Delivered to Students of Jhang College. Jhang, Pakistan, 1972
Why are we so poor as a nation? An analysis of the relationship between lack of education in Pakistan and our poverty
PDF (english) PDF (urdu)
Remarks made at the Banquet of the Symposium in Honour of P.A.M. Dirac on his 70th Birthday, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, August 1972
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1974
Address delivered to the 24th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Baden, Austria, 28 August - 2 September 1974
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1975
1st lecture in the series on Human, Global and Universal Problems, speech presented to students at the University of Stockholm. Stockholm, 23 September 1975
Ideals and realities (*)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2) PDF (version 3)
1977
Discussion remarks for the UNESCO Meeting. Paris, 12 December 1977
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1979
Address delivered at the UNESCO Celebration of the Centenary of Einstein's Birth. Paris, 9 May 1979
Einstein's last dream: the space-time unification of fundamental forces
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Address delivered to the UNESCO Executive Board, 108th session, upon the Award of the Albert Einstein Medal by UNESCO and the Nobel Prize for Physics by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Paris, 17 October 1979 (* & **)
PDF (english - version 1) PDF (english - version 2)
PDF (french)
Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford University. Oxford, UK, 12 November 1979
The nature of the "ultimate" explanation in physics
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Address delivered on the occasion of the Award of the D.Sc. Degree by the Islamabad University. Islamabad, 18 December 1979 (**)
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Speech delivered at the Nobel Banquet upon receipt of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Stockholm, 10 December 1979 (* & **)
PDF (french/english)
Address delivered on the occasion of the presentation of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Nobel Lecture. Stockholm, 8 December 1979
Gauge unification of fundamental forcesi (*)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2) PDF (bengali)
1980
Address delivered to the Board of Governors of the IAEA on the celebration of the Award of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1979). Geneva, 4 March 1980
Internationalization of science in Developing Countries
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Speech delivered at the Pugwash Workshop on Averting Nuclear War - the Role of the Media. Bad Deutsch - Altenburg, Austria, 11-12 October 1980
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Wolfson College lectures 1980. [Lecture no.5]. Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 1980
Unification of the forces
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Speech delivered on the occasion of the Award of Doctor Honoris Causa. Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, 1980. (**)
PDF (urdu)
1981
1st R.D. Birla Memorial lecture, Indian Physics Association, Bombay, 9 January 1981
Einstein's dream: the space-time unification of fundamental forces
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Address delivered at the University of Dacca. Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh, 17 January 1981
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Speech delivered at the Calcutta University convocation on the occasion of the receipt of an award. Calcutta, 21 January 1981
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6th Zaheer Science Foundation Lecture 1980. Zaheer Science Foundation, New Delhi, 23 January 1981
Reflections on science and technology
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Contribution prepared for the United Nations University (UNU) symposium on Scientific Creativity in Arab and Islamic Countries (Symposium on Endogenous Intellectual Creativity in the Arab World - 3rd regional symposium of the UNU project on Socio-cultural Development Alternatives in a Changing World). Kuwait, 3-12 March 1981
Renaissance of sciences in Arab and Islamic lands (**)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2) PDF (version 3)
PDF (version 4) PDF (urdu)
Speech delivered on the occasion of the Award of Doctor Honoris Causa. University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, 19 December 1981
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1982
Speech delivered on the Opening of the Cordoba Mosque. Cordoba, Spain, 10 September 1982
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Talk given at the invitation of the Canadian Association for the Promotion of Research and Education in Pakistan and the Institute for International Development and Co-operation. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 23 September 1982
Expatriate nationals and promotion of education and research in Developing Countries
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Welcome address delivered at the IFIAS (International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study) 10th Anniversary Meeting. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 21-24 September 1982
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Address given at the High-level Meeting on the Establishment of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Belgrade, 13-17 December 1982
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Simposio dell'Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). Rome (Roma), 17-18 December 1982
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1983
Address given on the occasion of the Award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, 9 January 1983
Arab universities as centres for scientific research
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Address delivered on the occasion of the Award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28 January 1983
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Key note address delivered at the Science and Technology Conference. Islamabad, 12 February 1983
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Paper presented at the Royal Moroccan Academy Meeting. Fez, 26 April 1983
International commons: sharing of international resources (*)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Paper presented at the Symposium on the "Future Outlook of the Arabian Gulf University". Bahrain, 11 May 1983
The Gulf University and Science in the Arab-Islamic Commonwealth (**)
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Paper presented at the 33rd Pugwash Conference. Venice (Venezia), 26-31 August 1983
International commons: sharing of international resources
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Opening address given at the High-level Meeting on the Establishment of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Madrid, 7-12 September 1983
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Inauguration of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, November 1983
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1984
Plenary Session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. Casablanca, 1-4 March 1984
Beam weapons in space
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Lecture. Nairobi, Kenya, March 1984
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Address delivered to a Meeting of "Islam and the West". UNESCO House, Paris, 27 April 1984
Islam and science, concordance or conflict (* & **)
PDF (english - version 1) PDF (english - version 2)
PDF (french - version 1) PDF (french - version 2) PDF (persian)
Speech delivered at the annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). New York, NY, 28 May 1984
Science transfer for development
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
PDF (version 3) PDF (version 4)
Address given at the "International Religious Liberty Congress". Rome (Roma), 4 September 1984
Liberty of scientific belief in Islam (**)
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Evidence to the Kendrew Committee. Geneva, 14 September 1984
High energy physics and the United Kingdom
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Address given at the Plenary Session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. Marrakech, 25-27 October 1984
The right of peoples in Islam to religious liberty and self-determination
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UN Seminar on the Encouragement of Understanding, Tolerance and Respect in Matters Relating to Freedom of Religion or Belief. Geneva, 3-14 December 1984
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1985
Particle Physics: Will Britain Kill its own Creation? (*)
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Speech delivered at the opening of the SID (Society for International Development) Meeting, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Chapter. Trieste, 18 January 1985
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Address delivered at P.A.M. Dirac's Commemoration Day. St. John's College, Cambridge, UK, 19 April 1985
Dirac and finite field theories
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Dedicated to the memory of my father who taught me Islam. May 1985
Islam and science
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2) PDF (version 3)
Speech delivered at the Conference on the History of Particles from Pions to Quarks. Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Batavia, IL, May 1985
Physics and the excellences of the life it brings (*)
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Speech delivered at the seminar on Europe Facing Problems of Democracy. Florence (Firenze), 14-16 June 1985
Global tasks for Europe in areas of science, technology and ecology
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Speech delivered at the Groupe de Bellerive Conference on Nuclear War, Nuclear Proliferation and their Consequences. Geneva, 27-29 June 1985
Nuclear security, disarmament and development (*)
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Opening address delivered at the Conference on South-South and South-North Cooperation in Sciences, 1st General Conference of Third World Academies and National Research Councils. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 5-9 July 1985
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Concluding remarks delivered at the Conference on South-South and South-North Cooperation in Sciences, 1st General Conference of Third World Academies and National Research Councils. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 5-9 July 1985
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Introduction to the Theoretical Physics Panel of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics. Bari, 18-24 July 1985
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Address delivered at the Inaugural Session of the Roundtable Session on "Development: the Human Dimension". Istanbul, 2-4 September 1985
Science for development
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Town Meeting of the UK High Energy Particle Physics Community. Imperial College, London, UK, 23 September 1985
Why the Kendrew recommendations must be scrapped
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Speech delivered to the International Meeting on "Inter-university Co-operation: the Europe-Developing Countries Experience: Balance Sheet and Perspectives" / "La Cooperazione Universitaria: Bilancio e Prospettive delle Esperienze Europa - Paesi in Via di Sviluppo". Trieste, 21-23 November 1985
Third World higher education and Italy (*)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Address given at a Meeting organized by the Independent Commission for International Humanitarian Issues. Vienna, 16 December 1985
Science and peace
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1986
Specialisation in building of Third World science and education. [1986]
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Speech delivered on the occasion of a visit to Shibli National College. Azamgarh, India, 11 January 1986
PDF (urdu)
Speech delivered at the Convegno Internazionale la cooperazione italiana vista dai paesi in via di sviluppo. Fiera di Milano, Milan (Milano), 16 April 1986
The Founding of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
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Speech delivered at the "Premio Umberto Biancamano" 1985 Award-giving Ceremony. Rome (Roma), 26 April 1986
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Message to the Inauguration Ceremony of the African Academy of Sciences. Nairobi, 1 June 1986
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Message to the Symposium on Utilisation of Indigenous Scientists in National Development. Nairobi, 1-6 June 1986
Drought, desertification and food deficit study-project
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Lecture delivered to the Pakistan Planning Commission at the Eleventh International Nathiagali Summer College. Nathiagali, Pakistan, 22 June 1986
On Pakistan science 1986
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Speech delivered at the Symposium on "Turkey in the Year of 2000". Istanbul, 5-7 November 1986
Highlights of science for Turkey (* & **)
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Lecture given at Trumbull College, Yale University. New Haven, CT, 11 November 1986
Science transfer for development and global problems of science and technology
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Speech delivered at the International Conference on "Science in Europe", to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of UNESCO. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 8-11 December 1986
Scientific exchanges between Developed and Developing Countries: the experience of the ICTP and TWAS
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Homage to Chaudhri Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
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An agenda for the 21st century: interview by Rushworth M. Kidder
Closing the great divide
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1987
Presented to the Islamic Summit. Kuwait, January 1987
The future of science in Islam (*)
PDF (english - version 1) PDF (english - version 2) PDF (spanish)
Lecture delivered at the International Symposium of Abrahamic Unity. Cordoba, Spain, 12-15 February 1987
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Speech delivered at the International Forum. Moscow, 14-16 February 1987
Nuclear security, disarmament and development
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Address delivered to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre. Ottawa, 19 March 1987
Science and development
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Keynote Address delivered at the Fifth Jamaican Society of Scientists and Technologists (JSST) Awards Ceremony. Kingston, Jamaica, 21 March 1987
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Address delivered at the Symposium on Science and Society. Mexico, 23-24 March 1987
Science and development
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Meeting of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. Paris, 10-11 June 1987
The ultimate nuclear accident
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Address delivered at the First Congress of African Scientists. Brazzaville, Congo, 25-30 June 1987
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Tribute presented on the occasion of Sir Denys Wilkinson's 65th Birthday. University of Sussex, Brighton, 7-9 September 1987
Interactions and structures in nuclei
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Address delivered at the Second General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Beijing, China, 14-18 September 1987
The regeneration of sciences in the Third World
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Address delivered at the 30th Anniversary of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Vienna, 21-25 September 1987
Science and technology transfer to the Third World
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Address delivered at the Meeting Organized by the Cooperative Cattolico Democratica di Cultura. Brescia, 4 November 1987
Global problems of science and education (with UNESCO's involvement)
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Address delivered on the occasion of the Award of the "International Prize for Peace and International Understanding". UNESCO Centre, Florence (Firenze), 20 December 1987
Global problems of science and education (with UNESCO's involvement)
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Science, hight technology and development
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1988
Speech delivered at the Conference of Nobel Laureates on the Invitation of President F. Mitterrand of France and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity New York. Paris, 18-21 January 1988
Science, technology and development
PDF (english - version 1) PDF (english - version 2) PDF (french)
On the occasion of the Award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. University of Ghent, Ghent (Gent), Belgium, 18 March 1988
The blindness of the Third World
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Talk presented at the conference on "Scientific Thinking: Between Secularisation and the Transcendent", organised by the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation. Turin (Torino), 21-23 June 1988
An Islamic view-point (* & **)
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Message delivered to the International Congress on "The University in the World Today". Bologna, 13-18 September 1988
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Speech delivered at the First Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 24-28 October 1988
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Address given on the occasion of the Award of the Centro Internazionale di Cultura per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli, Premio Internazionale "Genova - Sviluppo dei Popoli". Genova, 29 October 1988
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Opening remarks delivered at the Workshop on Increasing Flow of Scientific Literature to Third World Institutions. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 31 October - 1 November 1988
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Talk. Tehran, 16 November 1988
Notes on science and high technology and development for Iran and the Islamic Countries (**)
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Prepared for the 4th meeting of the South Commission. Kuwait, 10-12 December 1988
Notes on science and high technology and development for Arab and Islamic Countries (*)
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Address delivered at the Third National Conference on Physics "Physics and Development". Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, 22-24 November 1988
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Notes on Science and High Technology and Developement for Arab and Islamic Countries
PDF (malaysian) PDF (korean)
BBC Radio 3 programme: Desperately seeking superstrings. Interview.
Superstrings: a theory of everything?
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1989
60th Birthday Celebration of Murray Gell-Mann at the California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA, 27 January 1989
The Gell-Mann age of particle physics and what the Third World expects the First World to do in order to help it with science and technology
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
Draft of the address delivered on the occasion of the Award of the 1st Edinburgh Medal and Prize. Edinburgh International Festival of Science and Technology, Edinburgh, 8 April 1989
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Address delivered at the Symposium "Planet Earth"/Actes du Colloque "Planete Terre". Paris, 12-13 June 1989
PDF (english) PDF (french)
Speech delivered to the Panel Meeting of Eminent Persons on Peace, Development and the Role of Science and Technology Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly. New York, NY, 26 October 1989
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Opening Speech delivered at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on "Frontiers in Physics, High Technology and Mathematics". Trieste, 31 October - 4 November 1989
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Speech delivered on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Trieste, 31 October 1989
From a life of physics
PDF (version 1) PDF (version 2)
1990
Symposium on the Scientific Future of Turkey. Istanbul, 16-18 April 1990
Science, technology and development in Turkey
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Speech given on the occasion of the award of the Catalonia International Prize. Barcelona, 29 May 1990
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Religion and Science
PDF (urdu, pt.1)
Opening Address delivered at the Third General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Second General Meeting of the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO). Caracas, 15 October 1990
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Third General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Caracas, 15-19 October 1990
Building science and technology capacity in the South - a blueprint
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Opening Statement delivered at the Conference on Co-operation in Science, High Technology and Environment between North and South Mediterranean Countries. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 12-13 November 1990
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Science and Technology in a Changing World: the Role of Europe, Conference of Nobel Prize Laureates. Castelporziano, Roma (Roma), 3-4 December 1990
The problems of Developing Countries in connection with the utilisation of advanced science and technology
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1991
Address delivered on the Occasion of Professor Salam's 65th Birthday Celebration. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 29 January 1991
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Opening Statement delivered at the Roundtable on Scientific Brain Drain in the Third World and in Central and Eastern Europe. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 25 March 1991
Scientific brain drain in the Third World and in Central and Eastern Europe
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Discorso pronunciato alla Conferenza tenuta nella seduta a Classi Riunite, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rome (Roma), 11 May 1991
L'Islam e la scienza. Armonia o conflitto?
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Address delivered at the ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions) "ASCEND 21" (An Agenda of Science for Environment and Development into the 21st Century) Conference. Vienna, 25 November 1991
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Talk. Oslo, 13 December 1991
Why they gave me the Nobel Prize in Physics, what I have subsequently done with it and the story of my life since
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1992
Speech delivered at the conference on Science and Ethics at Dawning of the Third Millennium. Varenna, 28-30 September 1992
Religion and Science with Particular Reference to Science in Islam
PDF (english)
PDF (italian - version 1)
PDF (italian - version 2, pt.1) PDF (italian - version 2, pt.2)
Interview. Barcelona, January 1992
PDF (catalan) PDF (english) PDF (french) PDF (german) PDF (spanish)
1993
Address delivered at the Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of the International Centre of Science, Technology and Environment for Densely Populated Regions (ICSTED). Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh, 22 May 1993
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