Sheldon Glashow

Education: A.B., Cornell University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Field of Research: Theoretical Particle Physics

Biography: Professor Glashow has done seminal research in the fields of elementary particle physics and cosmology. His work led to the prediction of neutral currents, charmed particles, and intermediate vector bosons, all of which were subsequently discovered by experiments. He played a key role in unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces and in creating today's successful `standard model of particle physics,' as well as its more speculative generalization, `grand-unified theory.' For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1979, with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg. He is the author of some 300 research papers and three books: Interactions, The Charm of Physics, and From Alchemy to Quarks.