Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University

Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. He was a professor at Harvard University's department of physics before he moved to Boston University. Sheldon Glashow at Harvard - I took the picture and declare it public domain - Lubos Motl - lumidek File links The following pages link to this file: Sheldon Lee Glashow ... Sheldon Glashow at Harvard - I took the picture and declare it public domain - Lubos Motl - lumidek File links The following pages link to this file: Sheldon Lee Glashow ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ... A black hole concept drawing by NASA. Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φύσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Boston University is a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

He, along with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, is the mastermind of the electroweak theory, for which he won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Prof. ... In physics, the electroweak theory presents a unified description of two of the four fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

Both he and Weinberg attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. He achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and received a Ph. D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959. He was rejected for admission to graduate school at Princeton University, a fact which has led to a lifelong dislike of the institution. The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. ... The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Cornell University is a research university whose main campus is located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York, and whose two medical campuses are located in New York City and in Education City, Qatar, near Doha. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fifth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ...

Glashow is a notable opponent of Superstring theory due to its apparent lack of experimentally testable predictions. Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modeling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. ...

External links

• Sheldon Lee Glashow
• Interview with Glashow on Superstrings
• contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current.