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