Sheldon Lee Glashow

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

Gender: male

Field: American theoretical physicist

Biography

Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. 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.

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 Laboratory – Cambridge, MA, USA

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