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Steven Weinberg

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American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)

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Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist, writer, and university teacher. Born in New York City in 1933, he was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Cornell University. His academic career included positions at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin. Weinberg’s work focused on theoretical physics and cosmology.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Elliott Cresson Medal, and the Oskar Klein Medal. Weinberg was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He identified as an atheist and was of Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. Among his published works are *Creations* and *İlk Üç Dakika*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1933
Works
48

Top works

  • Ḥazon ha-teʾoryah ha-sofit
  • İlk Üç Dakika
  • Ya yuan zi li zi de fa xian
  • Zhong ji li lun zhi meng
  • Creations

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Soviet Union
Active from
1933
Active to
2021
classicalcomposer
DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
142
Total plays
858

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Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Steven+Weinberg">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,565x

  2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

    · 2012 · cited 54,017x

  3. Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks

    · 1998 · cited 34,120x

  4. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,673x

  5. The Hallmarks of Cancer

    · 2000 · cited 22,927x

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Quotes

  • “As everyone today knows, in specifying the value of a gauge coupling constant it is necessary to say not only what its value is but where — that is at what normalization scale — it has that value.”
  • “Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.”
  • “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
  • “If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.”
  • “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
  • “One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1979

    “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”

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Encyclopedic overview

Steven Weinberg (/ˈwaɪnbɜːrɡ/; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".

He held the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and physical cosmology was honored with numerous prizes and awards, including the 1991 National Medal of Science. In 2004, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he was "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Britain's Royal Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His three-volume textbook The Quantum Theory of Fields is considered a classic. He later became interested in general relativity and wrote Gravitation and Cosmology.

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