Shelly Glashow

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Shelly Glashow is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his contributions to the electroweak theory unifying electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

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instanceOf American scientist
Nobel laureate
human
theoretical physicist
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
PhD in physics
awardReceived J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics
Sakurai Prize
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1932-12-05
doctoralAdvisor Julian Schwinger
educatedAt Cornell University
Harvard University
employer Boston University
Harvard University
era 20th-century physics
21st-century physics
familyName Glashow
linked to: Sheldon Glashow
fieldOfWork elementary particle theory
particle physics
theoretical physics
fullName Sheldon Lee Glashow
linked to: Sheldon Glashow
gender male
givenName Sheldon
influencedBy Julian Schwinger
quantum field theory
knownFor Glashow–Weinberg–Salam model
contributions to gauge theories
electroweak theory
prediction of weak neutral currents
unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
nickname Shelly
NobelPrizeCategory Physics
NobelPrizeMotivation for contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction
NobelPrizeYear 1979
notableStudent Howard Georgi
placeOfBirth New York City
positionHeld professor of physics
residence United States of America
sharedNobelPrizeWith Abdus Salam
Steven Weinberg
theoryDeveloped SU(2)×U(1) electroweak gauge theory

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