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This article lists inventions and discoveries made by scientists with Pakistani nationality withinPakistan and outside the country, post theindependence of Pakistan in 1947.

• Development of the world's first workable plastic magnet at room temperature by organic chemist and polymer scientist Naveed Zaidi.^[1][2][3]

• Discovery ofelectroweak interaction byAbdus Salam, along with two AmericansSheldon Glashow andSteven Weinberg. The discovery led them to receive theNobel Prize in Physics.^[4]
• Abdus Salam who along withSteven Weinberg independently predicted the existence of a subatomic particle now called theHiggs boson, Named after a British physicist who theorized that it endowed other particles with mass.^[5]
• The development of theStandard Model of particle physics bySheldon Glashow's discovery in 1960 of a way to combine theelectromagnetic andweak interactions.^[6] In 1967Steven Weinberg^[7] andAbdus Salam^[8] incorporated theHiggs mechanism^[9][10][11] into Glashow'selectroweak theory, giving it its modern form.

• Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood a Pakistaninuclear engineer developed a device to detect heavy water leaks in nuclear steam cylinders while working at Knapp nuclear power reactor near Karachi in 1972.^[12] The device is patent in his name under his initials SBM probe and is widely used in nuclear power plants to date.^[13]

• TheOmmaya reservoir - a system for the delivery of drugs (e.g.chemotherapy) into thecerebrospinal fluid for treatment of patients withbrain tumours - was developed byAyub K. Ommaya, a Pakistanineurosurgeon.^[14]
• Anon-invasive technology formonitoring intracranial pressure (ICP) - developed by Faisal Kashif.^[15]

• Aboot sectorcomputer virus dubbed(c)Brain, one of the first computer viruses in history,^[16] was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers inLahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.^[17][18]
• Neurochip by Pakistani-Canadian inventorNaweed Syed.

• TheSagar veena, astring instrument designed for use inclassical music, was developed entirely in Pakistan over the last 40 years at the Sanjannagar Institute inLahore by Raza Kazim.^[19][20]

• TheHuman Development Index was devised byPakistani economistMahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people centered policies".^[21][22]

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