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Sheldon Lee Glashow

American theoretical physicist

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Sheldon Glashow won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces—one of those grand unification theories that made physicists briefly feel like they'd cracked the universe's cheat code.

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Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University. Glashow is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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