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Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ oʊ /, UK: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ aʊ /; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.
Sheldon Glashow, American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force.
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Sheldon Lee Glashow. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979. Born: 5 December 1932, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, 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"
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, 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"
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Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American physicist. He was a professor at Harvard University’s department of physics before he moved to Boston University. He, along with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, is the mastermind of the electroweak theory, for which he won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
