The Scientist: Sheldon Glashow
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Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Lee Glashow 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 Universit…
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Born 5 December 1932 · Q107420
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2011).
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2003· 1 entry
Glashow was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1994).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (1982).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for Weinberg-Salam theory (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Published “Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces” in Physical Review Letters — cited 3,863 times.
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1973· 1 entry
Glashow and Howard Georgi proposed the first Grand Unified Theory
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1972· 1 entry
“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.”
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1970· 1 entry
The GIM mechanism showed that the two quark pairs: (d
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1966· 1 entry
And was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics in 1979; he became emeritus in 2000
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1961· 2 entries
Glashow extended electroweak unification models due to Schwinger by including a short range neutral current, the Z0
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Published “Partial-symmetries of weak interactions” in Nuclear Physics — cited 3,477 times.
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1954· 1 entry
And a PhD degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959 under Nobel-laureate physicist Julian Schwinger
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1932· 2 entries
In New York City, to Jewish immigrants from Russia, Bella (née Rubin) and Lewis Gluchovsky, a plumber
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Born 1932-12-05.
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