Steven Weinberg
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Personal Life
Steven Weinberg was born in 1933. He attended Cornell and received a Bachelors Degree in 1954. He proceeded to do research at Niels Bohr Institute and continued to get a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1957. He has made many contributions to the realm of science and is now a professor at University of Texas at Austin. He has received many awards in his lifetime, the most notable being the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, the National Medal of Science in 1991, the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2004.
Contributions to Physics
He has/is completing research in fields including: quantum field theory, symmetry breaking, cosmology, supersymmetry, superstrings, technicolor, and in many other aspects of particle physics. He has published two major known books, The Quantum Theory of Fields and Gravitation and Cosmology.
One of his first theories was electroweak unification theory. He discovered that there were weak neutral currents between leptons which helped support his theory. These interactions were explained by spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Another notable theory was the full Standard model of elementary particle theory. It incorporated the work of the electroweak forces he discovered, along with the work of many other scientists of the time.
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