Steven Weinberg - Life and career

Physicist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an instructor at Columbia University (1957–9) before moving to the University of California, Berkeley (1959–69). In 1967 he produced a gauge symmetry theory that correctly predicted that electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces are identical at extremely high energies. The theory also predicted the weak neutral current, confirmed by particle accelerator experiments in 1973. As this theory was also independently developed by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, and extended by Sheldon Glashow, all three scientists shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. Weinberg pursued his theoretical investigations in the unification of the fundamental forces of the universe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969–73) and Harvard (1973–83). He joined the University of Texas (1982), and concurrently became a consultant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory (1983).

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg at Harvard University
Born	3 May 1933 New York, USA
Residence	USA
Nationality	American
Institution	MIT, Harvard University University of Texas at Austin
Alma Mater	Cornell University Princeton University
Doctoral Advisor	Sam Treiman
Doctoral Students	John Preskill
Known for	Unification of Electromagnetism and the Weak Force
Notable Prizes	Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)
Religion	Non-observant Jewish, Atheist

Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist.

Life and career

Weinberg graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950, and received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1954, living at the Cornell branch of Telluride Association, and his Ph.D.

Besides his scientific research, Steven Weinberg has been a prominent public spokesman for science, testifying before Congress in support of the Superconducting Super Collider, writing articles for the New York Review of Books, and giving various lectures on the larger meaning of science. with Richard Feynman) Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature (1993) Quantum Theory of Fields (three volumes: 1995, 1996, 2003) Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries (2001) Glory and Terror: The Coming Nuclear Danger (2004, NYRB) Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (2003, HUP)