Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1932-12-05 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American theoretical physicist

Biography

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 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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Awarded on: 1979-10-15

"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"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard University, Lyman LaboratoryCambridge, MA, USA