11 Facts About Sheldon Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.

Sheldon Glashow is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Sheldon Glashow was born on December 5,1932 in New York City, to Jewish immigrants from Russia, Bella and Lewis Gluchovsky, a plumber.

Sheldon Glashow graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950.

Sheldon Glashow received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1954 and a PhD degree in physics from Harvard University in 1959 under Nobel-laureate physicist Julian Schwinger.

Sheldon Glashow then became an assistant professor at Stanford University before joining the University of California, Berkeley where he was an associate professor from 1962 to 1966.

Sheldon Glashow joined the Harvard physics department as a professor in 1966, and was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics in 1979; he became emeritus in 2000.

In collaboration with James Bjorken, Sheldon Glashow was the first to predict a fourth quark, the charm quark, in 1964.

Sheldon Glashow is a skeptic of superstring theory due to its lack of experimentally testable predictions.

Sheldon Glashow had campaigned to keep string theorists out of the Harvard physics department, though the campaign failed.

Sheldon Glashow has described himself as a "practising atheist" and a Democrat.