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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.
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. 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 ...
Professor Sheldon Glashow has been a professor of physics at Boston University for 30 years. He developed important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction while studying at Harvard University.
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 GLASHOW | Cited by 36,585 | of Boston University, MA (BU) | Read 259 publications | Contact Sheldon GLASHOW
In this interview, Sheldon Glashow, Professor of Physics Emeritus at Harvard University and Professor of Physics Emeritus at Boston University, reflects on his career and Nobel Prize winning work. He discusses his childhood friendship with Steve Weinberg and his passion for science from a young age.
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.
