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Boston University, Bronx High School of Science, Cornell University, Harvard University
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Sheldon Glashow: American theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1979).
Born in New York City (age 93).
6 awards including High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.
Studied at Boston University.
AWARDS (6)
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High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
WON
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
WON
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Nobel Prize in Physics
WON
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Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
WON
Biography
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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