Steven Weinberg - Definition and Overview

Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He and his colleagues, Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow, formulated the electroweak force theory that combines electromagnetism with the weak force. For this work, the three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.

He received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1954 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1957.

He is currently a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.

He is the author of the books Gravitation and Cosmology, The First Three Minutes, Dreams of a Final Theory, Facing Up - Science and its Cultural Adversaries and Quantum Theory of Fields (three volumes).

External links

• Steven Weinberg (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/steven_weinberg.html)
• several articles (http://www.nybooks.com/authors/201) by Weinberg on non-physical topics, written for a general audience, in The New York Review of Books