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