- 1. In which year was Sheldon Glashow born?
A) 1960
B) 1945
C) 1950
D) 1932
- 2. Which award did Sheldon Glashow win in 1979 for his contributions to physics?
A) Emmy Award
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Grammy Award
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
- 3. Where did Sheldon Glashow receive his Ph.D. in physics from?
A) Stanford University
B) Yale University
C) Harvard University
D) MIT
- 4. Which theory did Sheldon Glashow contribute to that unified electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force?
A) String theory
B) Electroweak theory
C) Quantum mechanics
D) Relativity
- 5. Which branch of physics did Sheldon Glashow make significant contributions to?
A) Fluid dynamics
B) Quantum field theory
C) Astrophysics
D) Particle physics
- 6. Who was Glashow's adviser during his doctoral studies?
A) Murray Gell-Mann
B) Julian Schwinger
C) Richard Feynman
D) Steven Weinberg
- 7. In which year did Sheldon Glashow share the Nobel Prize with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam?
A) 1979
B) 1990
C) 1985
D) 1968
- 8. In Glashow's electroweak theory, the weak force is transmitted by which particles?
A) Gravitons
B) Gluons
C) W and Z bosons
D) Photons
- 9. Sheldon Glashow was one of the first to predict the existence of which elementary particle?
A) Charm quark
B) Graviton
C) Neutrino
D) Muon
- 10. Sheldon Glashow was a prominent supporter of which scientific organization aimed at reducing the existential threat of nuclear weapons?
A) Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
B) Mensa International
C) National Academy of Sciences
D) The Royal Society
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