At the Nobel Prize award ceremony in 1979, one of the physics laureates, Abdus Salam, wore Pakistani formal attire. Joan Glashow, the wife of Sheldon Glashow, one of his co-laureates, expressed her admiration for his beautiful shoes. Salam then gave the Glashows a pair.
Sheldon and Joan Glashow donated the shoes to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2021.
