biography
pronunciation:
[wiynberg]
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| (1933– )
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| Physicist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an instructor at Columbia University (1957–9) before moving to the University of California, Berkeley (1959–69). In 1967 he produced a gauge symmetry theory that correctly predicted that electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces are identical at extremely high energies. The theory also predicted the weak neutral current, confirmed by particle accelerator experiments in 1973. As this theory was also independently developed by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, and extended by Sheldon Glashow, all three scientists shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. Weinberg pursued his theoretical investigations in the unification of the fundamental forces of the universe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969–73) and Harvard (1973–83). He joined the University of Texas (1982), and concurrently became a consultant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory (1983). |
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