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Physics Department Faculty:

Sheldon L. Glashow

Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus

PhD 1959, Harvard University

1979 Nobel Prize "For ... contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current."

Sheldon Glashow's research involves many aspects of particle theory, cosmology, and (from a pedagogical stance) classical mechanics. A. Cohen (BU), A. De Rujula (CERN) and Glashow showed that the visible universe cannot contain comparable amounts of matter and antimatter: "A Matter-antimatter universe?" ( Astrophysical Journal,495: 539-49, 10 March 1998) . S. Coleman and Glashow have analyzed possible departures from Lorentz invariance and deduced new experimental bounds on such effects ("Cosmic-ray and particle-physics tests of special relativity," Physics Letters B, 405: 249-52 , 24 July 1997). L. Mittag and Glashow studied impact phenomena ("Three rods on a ring and the triangular billiard," J. of Stat. Phys. 87: 937, May 1997 ; and The Physics of Billiards, a partially completed book)