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Standard Model

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1963–1967Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1963

Sheldon Lee Glashow1963

Science / Astronomy

The first step towards the Standard Model is Sheldon Glashows discovery, in 1963, of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions

1967

Steven Weinberg1967

Science / Astronomy

Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam incorporated the Higgs mechanism into Glashows electroweak theory

Names involved

Sheldon Lee GlashowSteven Weinberg

Provenance

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