Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-05-30 ) May 30, 1937 (age 89) , Moscow , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
- Citizenship
- American
- Alma mater
- University of Michigan California Institute of Technology
- Known for
- Quark model
- Awards
- Sakurai Prize (2015) MacArthur Fellowship (1981) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)
- Fields
- Physics ; neurobiology
- Institutions
- Los Alamos National Laboratory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Feynman
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Occupation
- neuroscientist
- Educated at
- California Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- signal processing
- Image
- George Zweig (3x4 cropped).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his attention to neurobiology. He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.
Early life and education
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