Steven Weinberg (1) (1933–2021)
Author of The First Three Minutes
For other authors named Steven Weinberg, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Born in New York City, Steven Weinberg was a high school and college classmate of Sheldon Glashow; both attended the Bronx High School of Science and Cornell University. Although Weinberg has made contributions as a theoretical physicist in cosmology, quantum scattering, and the quantum theory of show more gravitation, he is most widely known for his work with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, with whom he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. Weinberg received a share of this honor for his formulation of the theory that unifies the relationship between the weak force and the electromagnetic force, including the capability to predict the weak neutral current. After receiving a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1957, Weinberg held postdoctoral positions at Columbia University from 1957 to 1959, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1959 to 1960, the University of California at Berkeley from 1960 to 1966, Harvard University from 1966 to 1967, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1969. He is married to a law professor, and they have one daughter. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Series
Works by Steven Weinberg
Associated Works
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific American, a Special Issue) (1995) — Author — 20 copies
The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s (1997) — Contributor — 8 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1933-05-03
- Date of death
- 2021-07-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Education
- Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York, USA (1950)
Cornell University (1954)
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen (now the Niels Bohr Institute)
Princeton University (PhD | 1957) - Occupations
- theoretical physicist
professor - Relationships
- Weinberg, Louise (spouse)
Salam, Abdus (Nobel co-winner)
Glashow, Sheldon Lee (Nobel co-winner) - Awards and honors
- Dannie Heineman Prize (1977)
Nobel Prize (1979)
National Medal of Science (1991)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (1999)
Humanist of the Year (2002)
Oskar Klein Medal (1989)
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Reviews
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
Good stuff, This book ties a lot of things from different times, different cultures, and different people together to give a coherent chronology of how we got to here.
½
This entry is for two different books. "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles" was published by Scientific American and has gorgeous illustrations. "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles: Revised Edition" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003 and has virtually no illustrations.
I should have known better. The book was still in it's shrink wrapped state at the charity book sale ...and it is Vol III of a set about the quantum theory of fields. But it was cheap. Weinberg is a super star so what did I have to lose? Well, I've just delved into it .....and normally, even where the material is pretty dense there are introductory prose pieces or summary sections which give you the gist of what's being said. But even this (brief) material was beyond me. A sample of the text.....(I can't add in the Greek symbols in this text but they occur in virtually every line of the book)...p77. "The terms in Eq. (26.4.3) involving theta n and psi nL are the correct kinematic Lagrangians for conventionally normalised complex scalar and Majorana spinor fields."
OK I admit defeat. I'm sure that it's great but it's beyond me. So it goes back to the charity auction.… (more)
OK I admit defeat. I'm sure that it's great but it's beyond me. So it goes back to the charity auction.… (more)
A beautifully insightful book both about the origins of the universe and about deductive reasoning. I already knew the detection of the microwave background radiation was an important development in physics, but now I have a much clearer idea of just how important it was.
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- Rating
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