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Steven Weinberg
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Steven Weinberg (born
Biography
Steven Weinberg was born in 1933 in
Academic career
After completing his Ph.D., Weinberg worked as a professor at
In 1966, Weinberg left Berkeley and accepted a lecturer position at Harvard. In 1967 he was visiting professor at MIT. It was in that year at MIT that Weinberg proposed his model of unification of electromagnetism and of nuclear weak forces (such as those involved in
After his 1967 seminal work on the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, Steven Weinberg continued his work in many aspects of particle physics, quantum field theory, gravity,
In the years after 1967, the full
Weinberg became Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University in 1973.
It is of special importance that in 1979 he pioneered the modern view on the
In 1979, after the experimental discovery of the neutral currents -- i.e. the discovery of the inferred existence of the
In 1982 Weinberg moved to the
There is current (2008) interest in Weinberg's 1976 proposal of the existence of new strong interactions [Weinberg, S. "Phys. Rev."D13 974–996 (1976).] -- a proposal dubbed "Technicolor" by
Steven Weinberg's influence and importance is confirmed by the fact that he is frequently among the top scientists with highest research impact indices, such as the
Other intellectual legacy
Besides his scientific research, Steven Weinberg has been a prominent public spokesman for science, testifying before Congress in support of the
Weinberg was a major participant in what is known as the
Weinberg is also known for his support of
Weinberg has canceled trips to universities in the
:"Given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the
His views on religion were expressed in a speech from 1999 in
url=http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm
title= A Designer Universe?
author=Steven Weinberg
accessdate=2008-07-14
quote= A version of the original quote from address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. in April 1999]
He attended and was a speaker at the symposium on November 2006.
During a conversation with Richard Dawkins in 2008, Steven Weinberg commented that religion is a "mile wide and an inch deep" and if he cared about religion it would make him cry, to which Dawkins responded with a chuckle, "It does not make me cry. It makes me laugh!"
Personal
He is married to
Honours and awards
The honors and awards that Prof Weinberg received include
* Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from dozen institutions: University of Chicago, Knox College, City University of New York, University of Rochester, Yale University, City University of New York, Dartmouth College, Weizmann Institute, Clark University, Washington College, Columbia University, Bates College.
* American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1968
* National Academy of Sciences, elected 1972
* J. R. Oppenheimer Prize, 1973
* Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977
* Steel Foundation Science Writing Award, 1977, for authorship of The First Three Minutes (1977)
* Elliott Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), 1979
* Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
* Elected to American Philosophical Society, Royal Society of London (Foreign Honorary Member), Philosophical Society of Texas
* James Madison Medal of Princeton University, 1991
* National Medal of Science, 1991
* Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 1999.
Popular articles
[http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm A Designer Universe?] , critically discussing the possibility of the
Bibliography
* "Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity" (1972)
* "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe" (1977, updated with new afterword in 1993, ISBN 0-465-02437-8)
* "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles" (1983)
* "Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures" (1987; with
* "Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature " (1993), ISBN 0-09-922391-0
* "The Quantum Theory of Fields" (three volumes: 1995, 1996, 2003)
* "Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries" (2001, 2003, HUP)
* "Glory and Terror: The Coming Nuclear Danger" (2004,
*"Cosmology" (2008, OUP)
*Weinberg, S. & G. Feinberg. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0126&numPages=12&fp=N "Law of Conservation of Muons"] ,
*Pais, A., Weinberg, S., Quigg, C., Riordan, M., Panofsky, W.K.H. & V. Trimble. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0054&numPages=55&fp=N "100 years of elementary particles"] , Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References and notes
External links
* [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/weinberg.html Biography and Bibliographic Resources] , from the
* [http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html Home Page of Steven Weinberg at University of Texas at Austin]
* [http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/32522 In CERN Courier, Steven Weinberg reflects on spontaneous symmetry breaking]
* [http://www.pas.rochester.edu/urpas/news/Hagen_030708 Steven Weinberg praises teams for Higgs Theory]
* [http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/5146.html Oral history interview transcript with Steven Weinberg 28 June 1991, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/201 Weinberg author page and archive] from "The New York Review of Books"
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