Sheldon Glashow biography

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Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for his efforts in forming the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force. The son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Glashow earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Apart from his electroweak theory, Glashow is a notable skeptic of the Superstring theory.