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Who was the first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A
Dr. Abdus Salam
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B
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
C
Dr. Samar Mubarakmand
D
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman
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Dr. Abdus Salam
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Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
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C
Dr. Samar Mubarakmand
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D
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman
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Explanation
Dr. Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory. He remains the only Pakistani to have received a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.
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