Steven Wienberg

Steven Weinberg

For this nonfiction book assignment I am reading "The First Three Minutes", by Steven Weinberg. Steven Weinberg is an american theoretical physicist and Noble Prize laurate. He won the noble prize for physics, specifically electromagnitism while working along side with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow.

Steven Weinberg was born in 1933 in New York City to Jewish immigrants Frederick and Eva Weinberg. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950 in the same graduating class as Sheldon Glashow, whose own research, independent of Weinberg's, would result in them (and Abdus Salam) sharing the same 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Wienberg has a collection of respected and fairly well known authored books including The Discovery of Subatomic Particles (1983) and The Quantum Theory of Fields (three volumes: 1995, 1996, 2003). Wienberg also has a collection of honorary achievements including the James Madison Medal of Princeton University, awarded in 1991, and the National Medal of Science, awarded in 1991.                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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