![]() ![]() In the fall of 1979, they were (together with Abdus Salam), awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the unified electroweak theory. Towards the end of my time at Harvard I heard that their friendship was over and they were barely on speaking terms, but I never knew what had happened. It was well-known that they had been close friends, in the same class first at Bronx High School of Science, and then at Cornell. ![]() From what I remember, his office was more or less next door to Steven Weinberg’s. Glashow was my undergraduate advisor at Harvard, where I was a student from 1975-79. Today I came across a 2020 interview with Shelly Glashow, which was very interesting in general, and also answered a question I had always wondered about. David Zierler, the oral historian at the American Institute of Physics, has done many in-depth interviews with theoretical physicists in recent years.
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