electroweak theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of electroweak theory
First recorded in 1975–80; electro- + weak; alternative names after U.S. physicist Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) and Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam (1926–96)
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So successful have QCD and the electroweak theory been that, taken together, they are called the Standard Model.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
In the 1960s, a gauge theory, called electroweak theory, was developed by Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam and proposed that the electromagnetic and weak forces are identical at sufficiently high energies.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
But we’re far from being able to verify the theory—much further than we were from verifying the electroweak theory 40 years ago.
From Scientific American ● May 14, 2015
Until late 1982 these subatomic particles were known only in theory -- the electroweak theory, which won Nobel Prizes in 1979 for Glashow and two fellow physicists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most physicists believed that a theory called quantum chromodynamics, which explains the strong force, would eventually be encompassed with the electroweak theory under one grand unified theory.
From Time Magazine Archive
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