Science protection lawyer

Although the hair was white but Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow was still very agile, lively, showing a strong enthusiasm that few thought he was 81 years old.

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The passion for immeasurable science has turned Professor Glashow into a 'lawyer' who always speaks up to protect basic science. Because for him, 'science not only helps people understand their position in the universe and erases the obsession of toxic superstition of the past' , but also has great effects on daily life.

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Professor Glashow said he began his passion for science at the age of 12. At that time, the Jewish boy from Russia, who was born in New York, had been involved in sci-fi novels all day long and secretly dreamed of distant regions in the vast universe. Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein became his heroes. And his love of science led him to Bronx Science High School (BHSC) in New York. From this school there were eight Nobel Prize winners, including seven Nobel prizes for physics.

Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow

Professor Glashow is one of 8 experts who has brought great prestige to BHSC School. He attended the same class with expert Steven Weinberg, who later shared with him the Nobel Prize in physics. So what is the training secret of this school? He said the school's slogan was: 'Every great scientific progress comes from a bold imagination'. Here, teachers do not spend all day teaching teaching theory to students. 'In the class the students discuss and a question pops up. The teacher asked everyone to go to the lab and find the answer himself. ' From that foundation, Professor Glashow continued to pursue science at Cornell University, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley . He became professor of physics at Harvard University since 1966. He especially focused on the combination research work by 'outside of war, science is the only activity that is international'.

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Glashow's colleagues describe him as a special character, prominent among contemporary physicists, because he always speaks strongly of defending the role of basic science. In 1995, when the University of Rochester in New York planned to remove the math program, Professor Glashow immediately wrote a letter to the school principal stressing: 'The school's action will lead to a view of mathematics. does not play an important role in education '.

'Many politicians still think that scientific research is a direct contribution to the economy and health, while basic sciences such as physics or astronomy are useless. They demand scientific research to be market-oriented. That is the concept of filth ' - Professor Glashow is annoyed. He pointed out that important inventions such as X-rays, penicillin, Internet . are all derived from studies for purely scientific purposes, but have enormous applications in everyday life. . 'If inventors really want to solve life problems in their day, we don't have X-rays, electric motors, radios .' - he said.

He also believes that international scientific cooperation will lead the world to a new century of less violence, a century when all the world's people will be able to share scientific and technological achievements. It was that strong belief that led him to surpass thousands of distant people to come back to Vietnam for the first time to pass on the message of the role of basic science."Vietnam needs to understand that science and technology are indispensable for economic growth," Professor Glashow said.