Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize winning American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University.
Sheldon Lee Glashow was born in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. He was a friend of Steven Weinberg. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in physics from ...
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Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize winning American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University.
Sheldon Lee Glashow was born in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. He was a friend of Steven Weinberg. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959 under Nobel-laureate physicist Julian Schwinger. He was a visiting professor at MIT in 1974.
In 1961, Glashow extended electroweak unification models due to Schwinger by including a short range neutral current , the Z0. The resulting symmetry structure that Glashow proposed, SU(2) X U(1), forms the basis of the accepted theory of the electroweak interactions. For this discovery, Glashow along with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In collaboration with James Bjorken,...
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