sheldon

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A male given name transferred from the surname
A village in Derbyshire, famous for the legend of the Sheldon duck
A habitational surname from the placename
An English habitational surname from the placename
{i} male first name; family name; Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), English archbishop, advisor to Charles II; Edward A. Sheldon (1823-97), American educator and educational reformer

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Sheldon Lee Glashow
{i} (born 1932) United States physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 together with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam
Sheldon Lee Glashow
born Dec. 5, 1932, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. theoretical physicist. He joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1967. With Steven Weinberg (b. 1933) and Abdus Salam (1926-1996), he received a 1979 Nobel Prize for formulation of the electroweak theory, unifying electromagnetism and the weak force. In extending the early, limited theory of Weinberg and Salam to include more classes of elementary particles, he had to invent an important new property (charm) for quarks
Sheldon; and Glueck Eleanor Glueck
orig. Eleanor Touroff born Aug. 15, 1896, Warsaw died March 10, 1980, Cambridge, Mass., U.S. born April 12, 1898, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 25, 1972, Cambridge, Mass. U.S. criminologists. Sheldon Glueck immigrated to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He married Eleanor Touroff in 1922. As researchers at Harvard Law School, they studied the careers of criminals and juvenile delinquents and are especially known for the Gluecks' Social Prediction Tables, which attempted to identify potential delinquents at age six or even younger. See delinquency
Edward Sheldon
{i} Edward Austin Sheldon (1823-1897), American educator and educational reformer
Gilbert Sheldon
{i} (1598-1677) English archbishop, advisor to Charles II
sheldon

    Turkish pronunciation

    şeldın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈsʜeldən/ /ˈʃɛldən/

    Etymology

    [ 'shel-d&n ] (biographical name.) Old English scylf (“shelf”) + dūn (“hill”) or denu (“valley”).
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