The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Sheldon Lee Glashow

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Prize share: 1/3

Abdus Salam

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Prize share: 1/3

Steven Weinberg

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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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