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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

"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"
Sheldon Lee Glashow Abdus Salam Steven Weinberg
Sheldon Lee Glashow Abdus Salam Steven Weinberg
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA Pakistan USA
Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory
Cambridge, MA, USA		 International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy; Imperial College
London, United Kingdom		 Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1932 b. 1926
d. 1996		 b. 1933
 
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