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Sheldon Glashow discovered method to combine weak and electromagnetic forcesSteven Weinberg and Abdus Salam incorperate the Higgs Mechanism into Glashow's previous work, giving the modern form of the standard modelThe term first coined by Abraham Pais and Sam TreimanGlashow, Pais and Weinberg win the Nobel Prize for discovering the 'electroweak theory', after the discovery of neutral weak currents.Neutral Weak currents created by Z-Bosons discovered at CERNWhilst the Standard Model had predicted their existence, the top quark, tau neutrino and the Higgs-Boson, were only proven to exist at this time
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