Nobelist to give public lecture on scientific discovery
Supported by the prestigious CAS Albert Einstein Visiting Professorship Program, Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow, a 1979 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, is going to give a public lecture entitled "Accident and Design: Two Routes to Scientific Discovery" in Beijing
Prof. Glashow is a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and Boston University. He received, together with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force.
The lecture is organized by the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics and will be hosted by Prof. ZHOU Guangzhou, president of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology.
Time: 10:00 AM, Nov. 8 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room S101, Zhongguancun Campus, Graduate University of CAS
Tel.. 010-62555058, 010-62555058
