Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow , 1932-, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. He became a professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1961 before moving to Harvard in 1967. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that affected subsequent research on quarks and leptons. In 1979, Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg .

Glashow, Sheldon Lee (1932) US physicist and educator. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics with the US physicist Steven Weinberg and the Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam for their independent formulation of a unified “electroweak” theory that described both electromagnetic interaction and the weak interaction of elementary particles. He also proposed that quarks make up particles that interact strongly.