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Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ oʊ /, [1] [2] UK: / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ aʊ /; [3] born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University.
Steven Weinberg (/ ˈ w aɪ n b ɜːr ɡ /; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other nations. [3] U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in negotiating peace for the Russo-Japanese War. [4]
Year Portrait Laureate Subject Rationale 1979 Abdus Salam: Physics Awarded jointly to Sheldon Glashow, 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" [2] [3]
The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics was Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2018. [7] ... Sheldon Glashow (b. 1932) American
Richard Roberts, the winner of the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine in 1993, told the Times it was the first time in recent memory a group of laureates had gathered to oppose a Cabinet nominee.
Seven of these Nobel laureates received their prize in the field of physics. Robert J. Lefkowitz was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Leon N. Cooper (1947), co–developer of BCS theory; namesake of Cooper pairs [10] [91] Sheldon Glashow (1950), physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Weinberg ...
Winners often acknowledge their fellow nominees with a few obligatory words. But accepting best supporting actor for “The Cider House Rules,” Michael Caine graciously spent his whole speech ...