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Sheldon Glashow

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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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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1979

    “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”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Lee
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Boston University
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Notable work
string theory
Doctoral advisor
Julian Schwinger
Student of
Julian Schwinger
Field of work
field theory
Image
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Sheldon Lee Glashow
date of birth
1932-12-05
member of
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Erdős number
2
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
name in native language
Sheldon Lee Glashow
interested in
theoretical physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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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