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.

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.

Both he and Weinberg attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and a Ph. D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959.

Glashow is a notable skeptic of Superstring theory due to its lack of experimentally testable predictions. His departure from the Harvard physics department has been linked to the department's recent embrace of string theory.

Bibliography

• The charm of physics (1991) ISBN 0883187086
• From alchemy to quarks : the study of physics as a liberal art (1994) ISBN 0534166563
• Interactions : a journey through the mind of a particle physicist and the matter of this world (1988) ISBN 0446513156
• First workshop on grand unification : New England Center, University of New Hampshire, April 10-12, 1980 edited with Paul H. Frampton and Asim Yildiz (1980) ISBN 0915692317
• Third Workshop on Grand Unification, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 15-17, 1982 edited with Paul H. Frampton and Hendrik van Dam (1982) ISBN 3764331054

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.

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