Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow (/ˈɡlæʃ/; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize winnin American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor o Mathematics and Physics at Boston Varsity an Higgins Professor o Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard Varsity, an is a member o the Buird o Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.


Sheldon Lee Glashow
Born (1932-12-05) 5 December 1932 (age 91)
New York Ceety, New York, US
NaitionalityUnitit States
Alma materCornell Varsity (BA)
Harvard Varsity (PhD)
Kent forElectroweak theory
Georgi–Glashow model
Creeticism o Superstring theory
Hauf-marrae(s)Joan Shirley Alexander (m. 1972; 4 bairns)
AwairdsNobel Prize in Physics (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsBoston Varsity
Harvard Varsity
Varsity o Californie, Berkeley
ThesisThe vector meson in elementary particle decays (1958)
Doctoral advisorJulian Schwinger