Sheldon Glashow
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
The Story of Birth
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Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 09:00 PM
America
Inspiration to Science
Hardships
Major Contribution; Electroweak Forces
Sheldon Glashow greatly contributed to the field of science. He was also very accomplished in his field of science and memorable for what he did to this day. In his field he also worked with other scientists that together they made their contributions. Those scientists include Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg. Sheldon Glashow deepened the understanding of modern science through his contribution and his theory is still relevant to today.
The contribution is the theory in electroweak forces. According to the Nobel Prize website, the prize motivation was for "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”. What this quote means is he accomplished his goals and received the Nobel Prize by his theory of electro weak forces. So what he did his extend and deepen our understanding of electroweak forces.
He did this by theorizing weak neutral currents in certain interactions of elementary particles. The effects were later confirmed in experiments. So Sheldon Glashow was very important to field of science. Glashow contributed to the theory of having to do with electroweak forces. Him and two other people achieved the Nobel Prize as a sign of accomplishments. For his accomplishments he is still memorable in the field of science to this day.