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Sheldon L. Glashow

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

December 05, 1932

Genre

Science, Physics

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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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Electroweak theory
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Average rating: 3.82 · 76 ratings · 9 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World by Sheldon L. Glashow, Ben Bova 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Charm of Physics: Collected Essays of Sheldon Glashow 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maxwell. Elettricità, magnetismo e luce, una sola famiglia 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Max Planck e la fisica dei quanti liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Alchemy to Quarks: The Study of Physics As a Liberal Art 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third Workshop on Grand Unification: Proceedings by chap Workshop on Grand Unification 1982 University of North Carolina, Sheldon L. Glashow, Paul H. Frampton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1982	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Science? by Richard Q. Elvee, Ian Hacking, Gunther S. Stent 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: analogy, nobel-laureate, nobel-lecture, particle-physics, physics, science, tapestry

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“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

tags: fine-structure-constant, history-of-science, physics

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“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

tags: fine-structure-constant, fundamental-constants, history-of-science, physics, theory

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