Sheldon Glashow

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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Sheldon Glashow is indexed among the 230 entries in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Physics collection. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.

Within Vinony's link graph, Sheldon Glashow is referenced by 424 other articles, and connects out to electroweak interaction, Harvard University and theoretical physics.

It sits within the topics 1932 births, 21st-century American physicists and American Atheists.

Its subject is documented across 68 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Wikidata facts

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: Sheldon Glashow at Harvard.jpg

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Commons category: 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.

Birth and education

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