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Sheldon Lee Glashow

1932 - Today

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Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: , UK: ; 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. Glashow is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sheldon Lee Glashow is the 57th most popular physicist (up from 225th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from United States (up from 905th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Physicist.

Sheldon Lee Glashow is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. He is best known for his work with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam on the electroweak theory, which describes the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 57 out of 851. Before him are Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, and Richard Feynman. After him are Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, and Andrei Sakharov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 6. Before him are Umberto Eco, Manmohan Singh, Jacques Chirac, Elizabeth Taylor, and Debbie Reynolds. After him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Omar Sharif, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, and John Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 171 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900), William James (1842), John Steinbeck (1902), Richard Gere (1949), Carl Rogers (1902), and Richard Feynman (1918). After him are Tupac Shakur (1971), Steve McQueen (1930), Dwayne Johnson (1972), John Fenn (1917), Priscilla Presley (1945), and Edwin Hubble (1889).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 5. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Charles H. Townes (1915), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), and Richard Feynman (1918). After him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882).

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