Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg
Weinberg at the 2010 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1933-05-03)May 3, 1933 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 23, 2021(2021-07-23) (aged 88) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Resting place	Texas State Cemetery
Education	Cornell University (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Electroweak interaction Weinberg angle Weinberg–Witten theorem Joos–Weinberg equation Asymptotic safety Axion model Effective action Minimal subtraction scheme Technicolor Unitarity gauge
Spouse	Louise Goldwasser ​ (m. 1954)​
Children	1
Awards	Heineman Prize (1977) Elliott Cresson Medal (1979) Nobel Prize in Physics (1979) ForMemRS (1981)[1][2] National Medal of Science (1991) Andrew Gemant Award (1997) Breakthrough Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University Columbia University
Thesis	The role of strong interactions in decay processes (1957)
Doctoral advisor	Sam Treiman[3]
Doctoral students	Fernando Quevedo
Weinberg's voice While joking with Richard Dawkins over his view on the existence of God Recorded July 2008
Website	web2.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html

Steven Weinberg (/ˈwaɪnbɜːrɡ/; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was 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 held the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and physical cosmology was honored with numerous prizes and awards, including the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics and the 1991 National Medal of Science. In 2004, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he was "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Britain's Royal Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Weinberg's articles on various subjects occasionally appeared in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He served as a 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.^[4][5]