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Sheldon Lee Glashow
Full Name of the recipient | Sheldon Lee Glashow |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1979 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Abdus Salam (33.3%) Steven Weinberg (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | 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 |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | New York, NY, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 5 December 1932 |
Age at the time of Award | 46 years |