Steven Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in unifying the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces into the electroweak theory.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate
human
physicist
science writer
theoretical physicist
university professor
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
awardReceived Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
Dirac Medal
Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize in Physics
Pomeranchuk Prize
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1933-05-03
dateOfDeath 2021-07-23
doctoralAdvisor Sam Treiman
educatedAt Bronx High School of Science
Cornell University
Princeton University
employer Columbia University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
University of Texas at Austin
familyName Weinberg
fieldOfWork astrophysics
cosmology
particle physics
quantum field theory
theoretical physics
givenName Steven
knownFor Weinberg angle
Weinberg–Salam model
contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics
electroweak theory
unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions
work on cosmological constant problem
work on effective field theory
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
NobelPrizeCategory Physics
NobelPrizeMotivation for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction
NobelPrizeYear 1979
notableIdea anthropic bound on the cosmological constant
notableWork A Model of Leptons
Dreams of a Final Theory
Gravitation and Cosmology
The First Three Minutes
The Quantum Theory of Fields
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
United States of America
placeOfDeath Austin
Texas
United States of America
positionHeld Jack S. Josey–Welch Foundation Chair in Science
professor of astronomy
professor of physics
religion atheism
residence Austin
Texas
United States of America
sexOrGender male
sharedNobelPrizeWith Abdus Salam
Sheldon Glashow


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