Sheldon Lee Glashow Facts
Sheldon Lee Glashow Facts
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| Sheldon Lee Glashow was the youngest of three boys born to Russian immigrants Lewis and Bella Glashow. |
| He was born in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950. |
| That same year he was a Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist. |
| One of his classmates was Steven Weinberg with whom he would later share the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| In 1954 Glashow earned his B.A from Cornell University and received his PhD in physics from Harvard in 1958. |
| He received a NSF fellowship and, from 1958 to 1960, worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. |
| It was during his fellowship in Copenhagen that he discovered the SU(2)xU(1) structure of the weak electromagnetic theory. |
| In 1960 his work on the algebraic structure of weak interactions were presented and he was invited to Caltech. |
| From 1962 to 1966 he was Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| In 1966 he became a professor of physics at Harvard. |
| In 1979 he became the Higgins Professor Physics. |
| He has also been a visiting scientist at CERN in 1968, a visiting professor at the University of Marseilles in 1970 and a visiting professor at MIT in 1974. |
| In 1964 Glashow became the first to predict a fourth quark. |
| In 1973 he and Howard Georgi proposed a grand unified theory which became the foundation of future work on unified theory. |
| He dismissed string theory since is not experimentally testable. |
| In 1977 he and Feza Gursey shared the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize. |
| He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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