Awarded Sakurai Prize (2015).
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George Zweig
George Zweig is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model. He later turned his attention to neurobiology. He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.
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Born 30 May 1937 · Q547674
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2003· 1 entry
Zweig joined the quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, founded by the former Cold War code breaker James Simons
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1977· 1 entry
Richard Feynman nominated both Zweig, and Gell-Mann again, for the Nobel prize, but the nomination failed
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1975· 1 entry
While studying the ear, he introduced a version of the continuous wavelet transform, the cochlear transform
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1969· 1 entry
For his overall contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions; at that time, quark theory had not become fully accepted, and was not specifically mentioned in
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1959· 1 entry
With a bachelor's degree in mathematics, having taken numerous physics courses as electives
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1937· 2 entries
Born 1937-05-30.
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In Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, into a Jewish family
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