Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes


Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.


Citations

Glashow, Sheldon Lee. "Towards a Unified Theory: Threads in a Tapestry." Nobel Lecture, 8 Dec. 1979, NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/lecture/.

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Sheldon Lee Glashow
Sheldon Lee Glashow
  • Born: December 5, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Physicist

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