Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Glashow · Science & Medicine
Physicist; electroweak unification theory, Nobel Prize 1979
1932, New York City, United States
United States (Harvard, Cambridge · Boston University)
Sheldon Glashow is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; electroweak unification theory, Nobel Prize 1979
Glashow developed the mathematical structure unifying the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces, and introduced 'charm' as a property of quarks that was later confirmed experimentally. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam for the electroweak theory, a cornerstone of the Standard Model. He was born in New York to Jewish immigrants from Russia.
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Physicist; electroweak unification theory, Nobel Prize 1979
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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