Glashow

American  

[gla-shau] / ˈglæˌʃaʊ /

noun

1. Sheldon Lee 1932-, American physicist.

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Glashow Scientific  

/ glăsh′ō /

1. American physicist who developed one of the first theories of an electroweak force, unifying two of the four fundamental forces of nature—the electromagnetic force and the weak force—as two aspects of a single underlying force. He developed the theories of Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg by introducing a new particle property known as charm, and for this work he shared with Salam and Weinberg the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

Ms Glashow said the BBC wanted to "reimagine how we deliver" news and factual content to the US.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

Glashow will lead on global distribution outside Britain and Ireland, encompassing content sales, direct-to-consumer services, international channels, co-productions and licensing, BBC Studios said on Monday.

From Reuters • Feb. 14, 2022

The prize was shared by Dr. Weinberg and two other physicists, Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021

“Most people at the time did not believe in two neutrinos, so the discovery was a shock,” Harvard University physicist and Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow told Science magazine in 1988.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2018

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