“The steady-state theory is philosophically the most attractive theory because it least resembles the account given in Genesis.”
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow "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".
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Born 3 May 1933 · Died 23 July 2021 · Q179282
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
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RealClearScience: Steven Weinberg's Pointless Final Theory
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2021· 5 entries
At age 88 at a hospital in Austin, where he had been undergoing treatment for several weeks
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Died 2021-07-23.
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Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (2021).
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“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
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“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
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2020· 1 entry
One of the founders of the prizes, Yuri Milner, called Weinberg a "key architect" of "one of the most successful physical theories ever", while string theorist Juan Maldacena, the chair of the selection committee, said,
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2016· 1 entry
Weinberg became a default leader for faculty and students opposed to a new law allowing the carrying of concealed guns in UT classrooms
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation” in Cell — cited 56,631 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded James Joyce Awards (2009).
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2004· 1 entry
Received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he was "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Published “The Hallmarks of Cancer” in Cell — cited 22,938 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Andrew Gemant Award (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
But even though I grieve that we physicists had failed to convince Congress, I’m at least proud that my book made it into McEwan’s canon
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca (1992).
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Which focuses on the nature of beauty in physical theories
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1991· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1991).
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Won James Madison Medal (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Won Oskar Klein Medal (1989).
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1982· 1 entry
Weinberg moved to the University of Texas at Austin as the Jack S
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1981).
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Elected to American Philosophical Society (1982)
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1979· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for Weinberg-Salam theory (1979).
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1979).
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Some six years after the experimental discovery of the neutral currents—i
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With his "folk theorem", he pioneered the modern view on the renormalization aspect of quantum field theory that considers all quantum field theories effective field theories and changed the viewpoint of previous work (i
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“Whatever native intelligence and intellectual curiosity I may have, I owe to my parents, in particular, my father.”
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1973).
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Weinberg proposed a modification of the Standard Model that did not contain that model's fundamental Higgs boson
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1966· 1 entry
Weinberg left Berkeley and accepted a lecturer position at Harvard
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1957· 2 entries
Studied at Princeton University (1957).
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Completing his dissertation, The Role of Strong Interactions in Decay Processes, under the supervision of Sam Treiman
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1954· 2 entries
Weinberg married legal scholar Louise Goldwasser and they had a daughter, Elizabeth
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Weinberg received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, where he majored in physics with a minor in philosophy
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Bronx High School of Science (1950).
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-05-03.
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