American theoretical physicist
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He helped prove that two of nature's fundamental forces — electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force — are secretly the same thing at high energies, a unification that earned him a third of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Born December 5, 1932, Sheldon Lee Glashow built his career in theoretical physics working on the deepest architecture of matter. Alongside Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg, he developed the theory unifying weak and electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles, work that included predicting the weak neutral current before experiments confirmed it. The Nobel committee honored the trio in 1979. Glashow has held chairs at Harvard, where he's now an emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, and currently teaches as the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston Universi…
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Why was there a Big Bang? What, if anything, came before? What mechanisms generated the exponential inflation of the early Universe?
... Why is the muon, some dumb particle, 200 times heavier than the electron? Why is the proton about 2,000 times heavier than the electron?
All kinds of questions remain. Many have to do with cosmology. How did the universe originate?
... If a distant galaxy is moving relative to us, its entire spectrum is Doppler-shifted in frequency.
Strong, weak and electromagnetic interaction are evidently part of a grand unified theory. These temperatures are today quite inaccessible.
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