Sheldon Glashow

Also known as Glashow, Sheldon L. Glashow, Sheldon Lee Glashow

American theoretical physicist

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Sheldon Glashow was an American theoretical physicist who made important contributions to understanding the fundamental forces of nature. His work helped establish the modern framework for particle physics and earned him recognition as one of the leading scientists of his field.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1991-06-09

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A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,285x
Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
· 1985 · cited 14,875x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,604x
THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,651x
Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces
· 1974 · cited 3,840x

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“My father told me that science would be all right, but why didn’t I do it in my spare time and go into medicine, like my brothers ... I differed with him slightly about that. He relented when my brothers came back safely from the war. When I entered high school, he helped me build a chemistry lab in the basement, where I loved to perform long and dangerous experiments.”
“... science fiction was an important part of my life when I was, like I say, twelve, thirteen, fourteen."”
“... Why is the muon, some dumb particle, 200 times heavier than the electron? Why is the proton about 2,000 times heavier than the electron? Why is the electric charge of the electron what it is? Why are there six quarks in nature? Why not seven or eleven or five? There are many, many "why" questions. Also a number of 'how' questions. What is the mechanism that causes the weak interactions to be weak and the electromagnetic interactions not weak?”
“All kinds of questions remain. Many have to do with cosmology. How did the universe originate? How did the galaxies become distributed in space like the suds in the kitchen sink, as one of my colleagues has described it? Why is the cosmological constant apparently very tiny but non-zero and has a peculiar value that leads the universe to expand more rapidly?”

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Commons category: Sheldon Lee Glashow
date of birth: 1932-12-05
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name in native language: Sheldon Lee Glashow

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Sheldon Lee Glashow ( US: /ˈɡlæʃoʊ/, UK: /ˈɡlæʃaʊ/; born December 5, 1932) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University. Glashow is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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