Selected Speeches and Other Writings

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Technology and Pakistan's Attack on Poverty.
Address as President by Professor Abdus Salam at the XIII Annual All Pakistan Science Conference
University of Dacca (Dhaka), Pakistan, 11 January 1961.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. 184-195, [1989].
  10.1142/9789814439152_0005
• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

Need for an International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Speech delivered by Professor Abdus Salam at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Annual Conference, Vienna, 1962, moving the resolution for the creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. 219-223, [1989].
  10.1142/9789814439152_0008

Diseases of the Rich and Diseases of the Poor.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 1st ed., pp. 41-44, [1984].
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists v.19, no.4, pp. 3&27, [1963].
  10.1080/00963402.1963.11454481

Pakistan and Technical Development.
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.

• Alt. version entitled:
  Pakistan: The Case for Technological Development.
  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists v.20, no.3, pp. 2-5, [1964].
  10.1080/00963402.1964.11454629

World Security and Developing Nations.

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists v.20, no.7, pp. 6-8, [1964].
  10.1080/00963402.1964.11454684

The Less-Developed World: How Can We Be Optimists?

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. xiii-xiv, [1989].
  10.1142/9789814439152_fmatter
• The World in 1984: The Complete New Scientist Series. v.1.
  Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, pp. xiii-xiv, [1965].

Symmetry Concepts in Modern Physics.
Iqbal memorial lectures delivered on Radio Pakistan. Lahore, Pakistan, March 1965.

• Symmetry Concepts in Modern Physics.
  Atomic Energy Agency Centre, Lahore, pp. 1-55, [1966].
• Alt. version entitled:
  Symmetry, Matter and Energy.
• Italian version entitled:
  Il Concetto di Simmetria nella Fisica Moderna.
  Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, [19??].

The International Center for Theoretical Physics.

• Physics Today v.18, no.3, pp. 52-53, [1965].
  10.1063/1.3047265

Science and Technology in the Emerging Nations.
Lecture 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.

• Alt. version:
  Science in the Sixties: the 10th Anniversary AFORS Scientific Seminar.
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, pp. 32-41, [1965].

Address Delivered as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan at the Science Conference.
Swat Valley, Pakistan, 26 August 1965.

Interaction at Trieste.

• New Scientist v.28, pp. 672-674, [1965].

Problems of Advanced Scientific Research in Developing Countries.
Address delivered at the International Symposium on Science and Society in South Asia. Rockefeller University, New York, NY, May 1966.

• Alt. version entitled:
  Advanced Scientific Research in Developing Countries.
  Rockefeller University Review, Sept.-Oct., pp. 5-8, [1966].
• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 1st ed.
• Alt. version entitled:
  The Isolation of the Scientist in Developing Countries.
  Minerva v.4, no.4, pp. 461-465, [1966].
  10.1007/BF02207978
• Ideals and Realities: selected essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. 211-216, [1989].
  10.1142/9789814439152_0007

International Collaboration in Physics.
Banquet address delivered at the 5th Annual Eastern Theoretical Physics Conference.
Brown University, Providence, RI, 25-26 November 1966.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
• Alt. version entitled:
  Theoretical Physics.
  Benjamin, New York, pp. 243-248, [1967].

Nuclear Physics in Pakistan.
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.

• Alt. version entitled:
  Nuclear Structure. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. ix-xiii, [1967].

Contribution to the 17th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.
Ronneby, Sweden, 3-8 September 1967.

The United Nations and the International World of Physics.

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 24, no.2, pp. 14-15, [1968].
  10.1080/00963402.1968.11457627

Response upon the Presentation of the Atoms for Peace Award.
Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 14 October 1968.

Memorandum on a World University Idea.
7 November 1968.

• Addendum.
• Alt. version entitled:
  Memorandum on a World University.
  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 26, no.3, pp. 38-40, [1970].
  10.1080/00963402.1970.11457781

The Advancement of Science for the Developing Countries.
Speech given at the Nobel Symposium "The Place of Value in a World of Facts".
Stockholm, 15-20 September 1969.

• Alt. version entitled:
  The Place of Value in a World of Facts (Nobel Symposium 14).
  Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 269-280, [1970].

Towards a Scientific Research and Development Policy for Pakistan.
Address delivered as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan, at the 13th Meeting of the Pakistan National Science Council. Islamabad, Pakistan, 8-9 September 1970.

• Alt. version:
  Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
• Ideals and Realities: selected essays of Abdus Salam 2rd ed., pp. 77-95, [1987].
  10.1142/9789814503204_0007

Theoretical Physics and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Speech delivered at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, 24 September 1970.

International Cooperation in the Physical Sciences (with Particular Reference to Developing Countries).
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.

Why Are We So Poor as a Nation?
An analysis of the relationship between lack of education in Pakistan and our poverty. Speech delivered to students.
Jhang College, Jhang, Pakistan, 1972 [in Urdu].

• English.

Remarks Made at the Banquet of the Symposium on the Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature in the 20th Century.
Dedicated to P.A.M. Dirac on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, August 1972.

• The Physicist's Conception of Nature. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 805-819, [1973].
  10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_44

The United Nations University.

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 29, no.7, 41, 56 (1973). 10.1080/00963402.1973.11455503

A World Federation of Institutes of Advanced Study.

• Journal of the National Science Council of Sri Lanka 1, pp. 7-17, [1973].
  Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. 235-241, [1989]

Address Delivered to the 24th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.
Baden, Austria, 28 August - 2 September 1974.

Ideals and Realities.
1st Lecture in the Series on Human, Global and Universal Problems presented to students.
University of Stockholm, 23 September 1975.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam 3rd ed., pp. 3-22, [1989].
  Alt. version entitled: Ideals and Realities; the Desperation of Nine-Tenths of Humanity Underlies the Drive for a New International Economic Order.
  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 32, no.7, pp. 9-15, [1976].
  Alt. version.
  Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, no.6, pp. 102-121, [1982].

Discussion Remarks for the UNESCO Meeting.
Paris, 12 December 1977.

Einstein's Last Dream: the Space-Time Unification of Fundamental Forces.
Address delivered at the UNESCO Celebration of the Centenary of Einstein's Birth.
Paris, 9 May 1979.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Physics News 12, no.2, 36 (1981).

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.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Alt. version
  French.

Speech Delivered at the Nobel Banquet upon Receipt of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Stockholm, 10 December 1979.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Les Prix Nobel/The Nobel Prizes 1979.
  Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 41-42, [1980].

Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of the D.Sc. Degree.
Islamabad University, Pakistan, 18 December 1979.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

Internationalization of Science in Developing Countries.
Address delivered to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the celebration of the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1979).
Vienna, 4 March 1980.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Alt. version entitled: From Toledo to Trieste: Renewing Our Commitment.
  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 36, no.7, pp. 35-38, [1980].

Speech Delivered at the Pugwash Workshop on Averting Nuclear War: the Role of the Media.
Bad Deutsch - Altenburg, Austria, 11-12 October 1980.

Speech Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of the Hon. D. Sc.
Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, 1980 [in Urdu].

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

The Proposal for the Creation of an International Centre for Science.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Einstein's Dream: the Space-Time Unification of Fundamental Forces.
1st R.D. Birla Memorial Lecture delivered at the Indian Physics Association.
Bombay, 9 January 1981.

• Physics News 12, no.2, pp. 36-39, [1981].
  Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Address Delivered at the University of Dacca.
Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh, 17 January 1981.

Speech Delivered at the Calcutta University Convocation on the Occasion of the Receipt of a Medal.
Calcutta, 21 January 1981.

Reflections on Science and Technology.
6th Zaheer Science Foundation Lecture 1980 delivered at the Zaheer Science Foundation.
New Delhi, 23 January 1981.

Renaissance of Sciences in Arab and Islamic Lands.
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, Sub-Project on Endogenous Intellectual Creativity).
Kuwait, 3-12 March 1981.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Alt. version
  Alt. version
  Urdu
  Alt. version entitled: Renaissance of Sciences in Arab and Islamic Countries.
  International Printing House, p. 56, [1981].

Speech Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of Doctor Honoris Causa.
University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 19 December 1981.

Ummat Ul-ilm: Towards a Commonwealth of Science.

• UNESCO Courier: a Window Open on the World 34, no.8/9, pp. 51-55, [1981].

Speech Delivered on the Opening of the Cordoba Mosque.
Cordoba, Spain, 10 September 1982.

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.

Expatriate Nationals and Promotion of Education and Research in Developing Countries.
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, ON, 23 September 1982.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

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.

Statement Made at the "Simposio dell'Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)".
Rome (Roma), 17-18 December 1982.

Arab Universities as Centres for Scientific Research.
Address given on the occasion of the award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
University of Khartoum, Sudan, 9 January 1983.

Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of Doctor Honoris Causa.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28 January 1983.

Key Note Address Delivered at the Science and Technology Conference.
Islamabad, Pakistan, 12 February 1983.

International Commons: Sharing of International Resources.
Paper read at the Royal Moroccan Academy Meeting.
Fez, 26 April 1983.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Alt. version.

The Gulf University and Science in the Arab-Islamic Commonwealth.
Paper presented at the Symposium on the "Future Outlook of the Arabian Gulf University".
Bahrain, 11 May 1983.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

International Commons: Sharing of International Resources.
Paper read at the 33rd Pugwash Conference.
Venice (Venezia), Italy, 26-31 August 1983.

Opening Address Given at a High-level Meeting on the Establishment of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB).
Madrid, 7-12 September 1983.

Speech delivered at the Inauguration of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
University of Trieste, November 1983.

Beam Weapons in Space.
Address delivered at the Plenary Session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Casablanca, 1-4 March 1984.

Science in Developing Countries.
Lecture.
Nairobi, 13-18 March 1984.

Islam and Science, Concordance or Conflict.
Invited address delivered at a Meeting of the Organization "Islam and the West".
UNESCO House, Paris, 27 April 1984.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Alt. version
  Persian
  French version entitled:
  L'Islam et la Science: Concordance ou Conflit?
  French version entitled:
  L'Islam et la Science.
  3e Millenaire, no.10, pp. 26-33, [1988].

Science Transfer for Development.
Speech delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
New York, NY, 28 May 1984.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Alt. version:
  IFDA (International Foundation for Development Alternatives) Dossier 50, pp. 45-56, [1985].
  Alt. version entitled:
  Science transfer to the Third World.

Liberty of Science and Belief in the Light of the Holy Kuran and the Islamic Experience.
Address given at the 2nd "International Religious Liberty Congress".
Rome (Roma), 4 September 1984.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

High Energy Physics and the United Kingdom.
Evidence to the Kendrew Committee.
Geneva, 14 September 1984.

• Alt. version entitled:
  Particle Physics: Will Britain Kill Its Own Creation?
  New Scientist, 3 Jan., pp. 16-18, [1985]
  Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

The Right of Peoples in Islam to Religious Liberty and Self-Determination.
Address given at the Plenary Session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Marrakech, 25-27 October 1984.

La Liberte de la Science et de la Foi a la Lumiere du Saint Coran et de l'Experience Islamique.
Address given at the United Nations (UN) Seminar on the Encouragement of Understanding, Tolerance and Respect in Matters Relating to Freedom of Religion or Belief.
Geneva, 3-14 December 1984.

Speech Delivered at the Opening of the SID (Society for International Development) Meeting, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Chapter.
Trieste, 18 January 1985.

Dirac and Finite Field Theories.
Address delivered at P.A.M. Dirac's Commemoration Day.
St. John's College, Cambridge, UK, 19 April 1985.

• Reminiscences About a Great Physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, pp. 262-275. Cambridge University Press [1990].

Islam and Science.
May 1985.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Alt. version:
  Hamdard Quarterly Journal of Science and Medicine 29, no.4, pp. 3-36, [1986].
  Alt. version:
  MAAS Journal of Islamic Science 2, no.1, pp. 21-46, [1986].

Physics and the Excellences of the Life It Brings.
Speech delivered at the Conference on the History of Particles from Pions to Quarks.
Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Batavia, IL, 1-4 May 1985.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Global Tasks for Europe in Areas of Science, Technology and Ecology.
Speech delivered at the seminar on Europe Facing Problems of Democracy.
Florence (Firenze), 14-16 June 1985.

Nuclear Security, Disarmament and Development.
Speech delivered at the Groupe de Bellerive Conference on Nuclear War, Nuclear Proliferation and their Consequences.
Geneva, 27-29 June 1985.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

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.

• Alt. version:
  South-South and South-North Cooperation in Sciences. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 29-32, [1986].

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.

• Alt. version:
  South-South and South-North Cooperation in Sciences. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 481-484, [1986].

Introduction to the Theoretical Physics Panel of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics.
Bari, Italy, 18-24 July 1985.

Science for Development.
Address delivered at the Inaugural Session of the Roundtable Session on "Development: the Human Dimension".
Istanbul, 2-4 September 1985.

• Alt. version:
  North-South Perspectives 1, pp. 69-74, [1987]

Why the Kendrew Recommendations Must be Scrapped.
Town Meeting of the UK High Energy Particle Physics Community.
Imperial College, London, UK, 23 September 1985.

Third World Higher Education and Italy.
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.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Alt. version entitled:
  Higher Education and Development.
  Higher Education in Europe 11, no.3, pp. 7-12, [1986].

Science and Peace.
Address given at a meeting organized by the Independent Commission for International Humanitarian Issues.
Vienna, 16 December 1985.

Specialisation in Building of Third World Science and Education.
1986.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Science in Arab Countries.
Address delivered at the Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) meeting on the Preparation of Strategies in the Field of Science and Technology.
Safat, Kuwait, 1986.

Speech Delivered on the Occasion of a Visit to Shibli National College.
Azamgarh, India, 11 January 1986 [in Urdu].

The Founding of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Speech delivered at the Convegno Internazionale la Cooperazione Italiana Vista dai Paesi in Via di Sviluppo (International Meeting on Cooperation Between Italy and the Developing Countries).
Fiera di Milano, Milan (Milano), 16 April 1986.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Speech Delivered at the "Premio Umberto Biancamano" 1985 Award-Giving Ceremony.
Rome (Roma), 26 April 1986.

Message to the Inauguration Ceremony of the African Academy of Sciences.
Nairobi, 1 June 1986.

Drought, Desertification and Food Deficit Study-Project.
Message to the Symposium on Utilisation of Indigenous Scientists in National Development.
Nairobi, 1-6 June 1986.

On Pakistan Science 1986.
Lecture delivered to the Pakistan Planning Commission at the Eleventh International Nathiagali Summer College.
Nathiagali, Pakistan, 22 June 1986.

Highlights of Science for Turkey.
Speech delivered at the Symposium on "Turkey in the Year of 2000".
Istanbul, 5-7 November 1986.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

Science Transfer for Development and Global Problems of Science and Technology.
Lecture given at Trumbull College. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 11 November 1986.

Scientific Exchanges Between Developed and Developing Countries: the Experience of the ICTP and TWAS.
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.

Homage to Chaudhri Muhammad Zafrulla Khan.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.

Closing the Great Divide.
Interview by Rushworth M. Kidder.

• An Agenda for the 21^st Century. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 107-114, [1987]

Christmas Message to the Corriere della Sera.
December 1986.

The Future of Science in Islam.
Presented to the Islamic Summit. Kuwait, January 1987.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.
  Alt. version entitled:
  The Future of Science in Islamic Countries.
  Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam
  Spanish version entitled:
  El Islam Cientifico.
  Calamo, no.14, pp. 10-14, [1987].

Lecture Delivered at the International Symposium of Abrahamic Unity.
Cordoba, Spain, 12-15 February 1987.

Nuclear Security, Disarmament and Development.
Speech delivered at the International Forum.
Moscow, 14-16 February 1987.

Science and Development.
Address delivered to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre.
Ottawa, ON, 19 March 1987.

Keynote Address Delivered at the Fifth Jamaican Society of Scientists and Technologists (JSST) Awards Ceremony.
Kingston, Jamaica, 21 March 1987.

Science and Development.
Address delivered at the Symposium on Science and Society.
Mexico, 23-24 March 1987.

The Ultimate Nuclear Accident.
Meeting of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Paris, 10-11 June 1987.

Address Delivered at the First Congress of African Scientists.
Brazzaville, Congo, 25-30 June 1987.

Interactions and Structures in Nuclei.
Tribute presented at the Conference on Interactions and Structures in Nuclei to mark the 65th birthday of Sir Denys Wilkinson.
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 7-9 September 1987.

The Regeneration of Sciences in the Third World.
Address delivered at the Second General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Beijing, 14-18 September 1987.

• Alt. version:
  International Agrophysics 3, pp. 367-387, [1987].

Science and Technology Transfer to the Third World.
Address delivered at the 30th Anniversary of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Vienna, 21-25 September 1987.

Global Problems of Science and Education (with UNESCO's involvement).
Address delivered at the meeting organized by the Cooperative Cattolico Democratica di Cultura.
Brescia, Italy, 4 November 1987.

Global Problems of Science and Education (with UNESCO's Involvement).
Address delivered on the occasion of the Award of the "International Prize for Peace and International Understanding".
UNESCO Centre, Florence (Firenze), 20 December 1987.

Science, Technology and Development.
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.

• Alt. version.
  French version entitled:
  Science, Technologie et Developpement

The Blindness of the Third World.
On the occasion of the Award of the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
University of Ghent, Ghent (Gent), Belgium, 18 March 1988.

An Islamic View-Point.
Talk presented at the Conference on "Scientific Thinking: Between Secularisation and the Transcendent". Giovanni Agnelli Foundation.
Turin (Torino), 21-23 June 1988.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

Message Delivered to the International Congress on "The University in the World Today".
Bologna, Italy, 13-18 September 1988.

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.

Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of the Centro Internazionale di Cultura per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli, Premio Internazionale "Genova - Sviluppo dei Popoli".
Genoa (Genova), 29 October 1988.

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.

Notes on Science and High Technology and Development for Iran and the Islamic Countries.
Tehran, 16 November 1988.

• Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries.

Address Delivered at the Third National Conference on Physics "Physics and Development".
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, 22-24 November 1988.

Notes on Science and High Technology and Development for Arab and Islamic Countries.
Prepared for the 4th Meeting of the South Commission.
Kuwait, 10-12 December 1988.

• Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam.
  Alt. version entitled:
  Science and Technology for a Sound Development of the South.
  Razvoj/Development International 4, pp. 291-311, [1989].

Desperately Seeking Superstrings.
BBC Radio 3 programme. Interview.

• Superstrings: a Theory of Everything? Cambridge University press, Cambridge, pp. 170-179, [1988].

• 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. 60th Birthday Celebration of Murray Gell-Mann. California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA, 27-28 January 1989.
  [Alt. version entitled: The Gell-Mann Age of Particle Physics].

• 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, UK, 8 April 1989.

• Address Delivered at the Symposium "Planet Earth". Paris, 12-13 June 1989.
  [Alt. version. Actes du Colloque "Planete Terre". Ministere de la Recherche et de la Technologie, Paris, 277-283 (1989)].

• 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.

• Opening Speech Delivered at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on "Frontiers in Physics, High Technology and Mathematics". International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 31 October - 4 November 1989.

• From a Life of Physics. Speech delivered on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 31 October 1989.
  [Alt. version].

• Science, Technology and Development in Turkey. Talk at the Symposium on the Scientific Future of Turkey. Istanbul, 16-18 April 1990.

• Speech Delivered on the Occasion of the Award of the II Catalonia International Prize. Barcelona, 29 May 1990.
  [Catalan. Catalonia Cultura 20, 26-33 (1990)].

• Religion and Science. Pt.1 [in Urdu].

• 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.

• Building Science and Technology Capacity in the South - a Blueprint. Speech delivered at the Third General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Caracas, 15-19 October 1990.

• 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.

• The Problems of Developing Countries in Connection with the Utilisation of Advanced Science and Technology. Speech delivered at the Conference of Nobel Prize Laureates on Science and Technology in a Changing World: the Role of Europe. Castelporziano, Rome (Roma), 3-4 December 1990.

• Address Delivered on the Occasion of Professor Salam's 65th Birthday Celebration. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 29 January 1991.

• Scientific Brain Drain in the Third World and in Central and Eastern Europe. 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.

• L'Islam e la Scienza. Armonia o Conflitto? Draft of the address delivered at a conference. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rome (Roma), 11 May 1991.
  Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei / Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Supplemento ser. 9, v.2 (1991)].

• 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.

• Why They Gave Me the Nobel Prize in Physics, What I Have Subsequently Done with It and the Story of My Life Since. Talk. Oslo, 13 December 1991.

• A Blueprint for Science and Technology in the Developing World.
  Technology in Society 13, 389-404 (1991).
  Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Governments. Pergamon Press, Elmsford, NY, 61-79 (1991).

• Interview. Barcelona, January 1992 [in Catalan].
  [English] [French] [German] [Spanish].

• Il saluto di Salam. Speech delivered at the University of Trieste during the visit of Pope John Paul II. Trieste, 2 May 1992 [in Italian].
  L’Universita di Trieste - Settant’anni di Storia: 1924-1994. Editoriale Libraria, Trieste, 445-447 (1994).

• Religion and Science with Particular Reference to Science in Islam. Speech delivered at the Conference on Science and Ethics at Dawning of the Third Millennium. Varenna, 28-30 September 1992.
  [Italian version entitled: Religione e Scienza con Particolare Riferimento alla Scienza nell'Islamismo. Scienza ed Etica alle Soglie del Terzo Millennnio. Società Italiana di Fisica, Atti di Conferenze 36, 57-94 (1993)].
  [Italian version entitled: Le Religioni Abramitiche e la Scienza (con Particolare Riferimento alla Scienza Islamica), I-II. Islam Storia e Civiltà 27, 69-83 (1989)].
  [Italian version entitled: Le Religioni Abramitiche e la Scienza (con Particolare Riferimento alla Scienza Islamica), III. Islam Storia e Civiltà 28, 157-163 (1989)].

• 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.