page_title: Sheldon Lee Glashow
section_title: Criticism of superstring theory
hierarchical_section_title: Sheldon Lee Glashow / Criticism of superstring theory
caption_attribution_description: English: Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow's PY 101 Energy class, at Boston University in Spring 2011
context_page_description: Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
context_section_description: Glashow is a skeptic of superstring theory due to its lack of experimentally testable predictions. He had campaigned to keep string theorists out of the Harvard physics department, though the campaign failed. About ten minutes into "String's the Thing", the second episode of The Elegant Universe TV series, he describes superstring theory as a discipline distinct from physics, saying "...you may call it a tumor, if you will...".
caption: Professor Glashow's KHC PY 101 Energy class, at Boston University's Kilachand Honors College (Spring 2011)
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