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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to * David Zierler, [Interview with Sheldon Glashow, (3rd June 2020)](https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/47288), in the "Oral History"-series of the American Institute of Physics with this quote on the effect of awarding prizes to otherwise respectable scientists: > by the late 1970s I began to think of myself as a Nobel contender. But I was under the impression that my old friend Steven Weinberg was doing everything in his power to keep the prize for himself and Salam. In particular—at a conference that he attended in Tokyo—he went out of his way to avoid mentioning my name at all while presenting the history of weak interaction theory. I got very upset by that omission. It was the issue which terminated our friendship. In the summer of 1979, I was invited to a meeting in Stockholm, to discuss the current state of physics ideas and others. Prior to the meeting, I sent a transcript of my talk to Steve. He was violently against my giving the talk. Because it examined various alternatives to what was then known as Weinberg/Salam theory. <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Sheldon+Glashow/4">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Sheldon+Glashow/4">v4</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Sheldon+Glashow">current</a>

   added pointer to

   • David Zierler, Interview with Sheldon Glashow, (3rd June 2020), in the “Oral History”-series of the American Institute of Physics

   with this quote on the effect of awarding prizes to otherwise respectable scientists:

   by the late 1970s I began to think of myself as a Nobel contender. But I was under the impression that my old friend Steven Weinberg was doing everything in his power to keep the prize for himself and Salam. In particular—at a conference that he attended in Tokyo—he went out of his way to avoid mentioning my name at all while presenting the history of weak interaction theory. I got very upset by that omission. It was the issue which terminated our friendship. In the summer of 1979, I was invited to a meeting in Stockholm, to discuss the current state of physics ideas and others. Prior to the meeting, I sent a transcript of my talk to Steve. He was violently against my giving the talk. Because it examined various alternatives to what was then known as Weinberg/Salam theory.

   diff, v4, current