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Sheldon L. Glashow


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in New York, New York, The United States
December 05, 1932

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Sheldon Lee Glashow

American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 "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".

Glashow was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He and Stephen Weinberg were members of the same classes at the Bronx High School of Science, New York City (1950), and Cornell University (1954). Glashow received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1959. He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1961 and returned to Harvard as a professor of physics in 1967.

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“Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.”
Sheldon L. Glashow

“Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.”
Sheldon L. Glashow

“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles.”
Sheldon L. Glashow, The Charm of Physics: Collected Essays of Sheldon Glashow



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