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<p>Create quantum physics biography page</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox scientist<br /> | name = Sheldon Glashow<br /> | image = Sheldon_Glashow.jpg<br /> | caption = Sheldon Glashow<br /> | birth_date = 5 December 1932<br /> | birth_place = New York City, U.S.<br /> | fields = Theoretical physics<br /> | workplaces = Harvard University; Boston University<br /> | alma_mater = Cornell University; Harvard University<br /> | doctoral_advisor = Julian Schwinger<br /> | known_for = Electroweak theory; charm quark prediction; GIM mechanism<br /> | awards = Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Sheldon Glashow&#039;&#039;&#039; (born 5 December 1932) is an American theoretical physicist who helped develop the electroweak theory. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with [[Biography:Steven Weinberg|Steven Weinberg]] and [[Biography:Abdus Salam|Abdus Salam]] for contributions to the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/biographical/ |title=Sheldon Glashow - Biographical |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach |access-date=20 May 2026}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Glashow&#039;s work helped establish the gauge-theory structure of weak interactions. With John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, he proposed the GIM mechanism, which explained the suppression of flavor-changing neutral currents and implied the existence of the charm quark.<br /> <br /> == Electroweak and particle physics ==<br /> Glashow&#039;s contributions are part of the route from early weak-interaction models to the [[Physics:Quantum Standard Model|Standard Model]]. His work joins [[Physics:Quantum gauge field|gauge fields]], particle multiplets, and symmetry principles in a framework that became experimentally successful.<br /> <br /> The charm quark prediction also helped connect electroweak theory with the emerging quark model and [[Physics:Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)|quantum chromodynamics]].<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Physics:Quantum Electroweak theory]]<br /> * [[Physics:Quantum Standard Model]]<br /> * [[Physics:Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)]]<br /> * [[Biography:Steven Weinberg]]<br /> * [[Biography:Abdus Salam]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist|3}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Glashow, Sheldon}}<br /> [[Category:Nobel laureates in Physics]]<br /> [[Category:Quantum physicists]]<br /> [[Category:Theoretical physicists]]<br /> <br /> {{Sourceattribution|Biography:Sheldon Glashow|1}}</div>

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