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Salam, Abdus

(Encyclopedia) Salam, Abdus, 1926–96, Pakistani physicist. After attending Government College at Lahore, he received a Ph.D. from Cambridge (1952). He taught in Lahore for three years before…

Glashow, Sheldon Lee

(Encyclopedia) Glashow, Sheldon LeeGlashow, Sheldon Leeglăshˈō [key], 1932–, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. He became a professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in…

electroweak theory

(Encyclopedia) electroweak theory, a unified field theory that describes two of the fundamental forces in nature, electromagnetism (see electromagnetic radiation) and the weak interaction. The…

Profiles of Middle Eastern Countries

Read about other countries involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Biographies Key Palestinian Figures Mahmoud AbbasYasir ArafatSala FayyadIsmail HaniyaSheik Ahmed…

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Read a history of the conflict as well as a glossary of terms, biographies, timeline, maps and more Biographies Key Palestinian Figures Mahmoud AbbasYasir ArafatSala…

Weinberg, Steven

(Encyclopedia) Weinberg, Steven, 1933–, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton, 1957. Since 1982 he has been a professor at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, having previously been…