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The electroweak theory, which unifies the electromagnetic force and the weak force, was independently proposed in the 1960s by three physicists: Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg.123
These scientists demonstrated that the two forces could be understood as different facets of a single, more fundamental interaction. Their work required the existence of carrier particlesâthe W particles and Z particlesâwhich were later experimentally verified at CERN in 1983. For their complementary efforts in formulating this theory, Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979.1432