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PHYSICS: Sheldon Glashow, 46 (U.S.), Steven Weinberg, 46 (U.S.), and Abdus Salam, 53 (Pakistani), for their contributions to a theory that explains the relationship of two of nature's basic forces: 1) electromagnetism, which accounts for such phenomena as sunlight and radio waves, and 2) the weak force that governs the release of a beta particle from the nucleus of an atom in a process called radioactive decay...
...Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, as well as Abdus Salam, director of the Italian-based International Center for Theoretical Physics and professor of physics at the London imperial College of Sciences and Technology, share the award...
...father called me up 30 seconds later," Weinberg said, adding "I felt I was taking my father an 'A' report card," he said...
...Weinberg said yesterday he first heard of his award when he was shaving with the radio on. "My hair stood on end when I heard the first report that 'one' American scientist had won," he said...
...Weinberg wrote his pioneering paper in 1967 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Karl Strauch, chairman of the Physics department, said yesterday. Glashow said the award citation appeared to refer to his work in 1960 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen...