Sheldon Lee Glashow
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Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) 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.
Both he and Weinberg attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. He achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and received a Ph. D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959. He was rejected for admission to graduate school at Princeton University, a fact which has led to a lifelong dislike of the institution.
Glashow is a notable opponent of Superstring theory due to its apparent lack of experimentally testable predictions.
External links
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
- Interview with Glashow on Superstrings
- contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current.
