Steven Weinberg

Physicist, Academic

1933 –

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Who is Steven Weinberg?

Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he is "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Articles of his on various subjects appear from time to time in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He has served as consultant at the U. S.

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Born
May 3, 1933
New York
Also known as
  • 史蒂文·温伯格
  • Вайнберг, Стивен
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Atheism
Ethnicity
  • Ashkenazi Jews
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Cornell University
    ( - 1954)
  • PhD, Princeton University
    ( - 1957)
  • Columbia University
  • Harvard University
  • The Bronx High School of Science
Employment
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Harvard University
  • University of California, Berkeley
Lived in
  • United States of America

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on July 23, 2013

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