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Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ oʊ /, UK: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ aʊ /; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.
Sheldon Glashow, American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "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"
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Sheldon Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg for unifying the weak and electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles. Learn more about his work, biography, and prize motivation on NobelPrize.org.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "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"
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