American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Sheldon Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University. Glashow is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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1932

December 5

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1082 Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother, Berenguer Ramon II.

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The world in 1932

When Sheldon arrived

april 24 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
april 5 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
august 2 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
august 24 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

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Walt Disney 1901–1966 American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (born 1901) Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Arthur Currie 1875–1933 Canadian general (died 1933) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) J. J. Cale 1938– American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013) Jeroen Krabbé 1944– Dutch actor, director, and producer Johannes Heesters 1903–2011 Dutch-German entertainer (born 1903) John Jellicoe 1859–1935 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1935) Józef Piłsudski 1867–1935 Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1935)

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