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Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (8) |
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Elliott Cresson Medal (30) |
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National Medal of Science (101) |
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Oskar Klein Medal (10) |
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Richtmyer Memorial Award (23) |
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| complete name: |
Steven Weinberg |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1979 |
| together with: |
Abdus Salam |
| together with: |
Sheldon Lee Glashow |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "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." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Steven |
| family name: |
Weinberg |
| occupation: |
writer |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
cosmologist |
| occupation: |
theoretical physicist |
| field of work: |
cosmology |
| field of work: |
physics |
| work location: |
University of Texas at Austin, 110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX, 78712, United States of America |
| description: |
Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he is "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Weinberg's articles on various subjects occasionally appear in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He has served as consultant at the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, President of the Philosophical Society of Texas, and member of the Board of Editors of Daedalus magazine, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the JASON group of defense consultants, and many other boards and committees. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1933 |
| usual name: |
Steven Weinberg |
