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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"
Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who has made major contributions to the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
A theoretical physicist focusing on elementary particles and cosmology, his honors include the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam) for their contributions to the electroweak theory and the 2011 European Physical Society Prize for inventing the GIM mechanism (Glashow, Iliopoulos, Maiani).
Sheldon Glashow | Physics. Emeritus. Research Interests: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. The problems of the breakdown of electroweak and flavor symmetries are among the most pressing facing particle physics today.
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