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Also Known As Weinberg-Salam theory • Salam-Weinberg theory • electroweak unification theory

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Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
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Steven Weinberg
American physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
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Sheldon Glashow
American physicist
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Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist

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