Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1979
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Steven Weinberg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1979
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
Together with: Abdus Salam , Sheldon Glashow
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/3/1933
place of birth
New York City
date of death
7/23/2021
place of death
Austin
Lived
88 years

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educated at
  • Princeton University
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1957
  • Bronx High School of Science
    • end time: 1950
  • Cornell University
  • Columbia University
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1972
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1968
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1981
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1982
  • Royal Irish Academy
    • start time: 2007
  • International Astronomical Union
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Harvard University
  • University of Texas at Austin
doctoral student
  • Joel Meyers
  • W. Vincent Liu
  • Fernando Quevedo
  • Edward Tryon
  • John Preskill
  • Raphael Flauger
  • Mark G. Raizen
  • Ubirajara van Kolck
  • Rafael Atilio Lopez-Mobilia
  • Orlando Alvarez
  • John M. LoSecco
  • Claude William Bernard
  • Bob Holdom
  • Lay Nam Chang
  • Scott Steven Willenbrock
  • Jun Liu
  • Todd Hunter West
  • Kanokkuan Chaicherdsakul
  • Bernard David Barkan Roth
  • Clifford Burgess
occupation
  • writer
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • cosmologist
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • physics
  • cosmology
  • theoretical physics
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