American - Physicist | December 5, 1932 -
I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
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I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
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I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.
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My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.
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My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
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Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.
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It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.
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People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.
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There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.
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In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
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Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
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Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
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