The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 (original) (raw)
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Sheldon Lee Glashow
Prize share: 1/3
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Abdus Salam
Prize share: 1/3
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Steven Weinberg
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "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"
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