sheldon lee glashow

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Definition of sheldon lee glashow in English English dictionary

{i} (born 1932) United States physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 together with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam

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

Turkish pronunciation

şeldın li gläşau

Pronunciation

/ˈsʜeldən ˈlē ˈglasʜou/ /ˈʃɛldən ˈliː ˈɡlæʃaʊ/