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