Busts of famous nuclear scientists donated by Italy and Pakistan last week are the latest in a series of art donations received by the IAEA on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. These donations often highlight individual scientists for their outstanding contributions.
Italy honoured Enrico Fermi, who is often seen as an architect of the nuclear age, contributing valuable expertise to the construction of the world’s first nuclear reactor. Pakistan donated a bust of theoretical physicist Abdus Salam, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak force.
