Steven Weinberg

Born: 1933-05-03 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American theoretical physicist (1933–2021)

Biography

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".

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Awarded on: 1979-10-15

"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"

Affiliations:

Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA

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