Steven Weinberg
1933 – 2021 · aged 88
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
- Born
- 3 May 1933 · New York City
- Died
- 23 Jul 2021 · Austin
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 3 May 1933BornBorn in New York City
- 1973AwardJ. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
- 1974AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
- 1977AwardDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 1979AwardElliott Cresson Medal
- 1979AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1981AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1989AwardOskar Klein Medal
- 1991AwardJames Madison Medal
- 1991AwardNational Medal of Science
- 1992AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca
- 1996AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
- 1997AwardAndrew Gemant Award
- 23 Jul 2021DiedDied in Austin
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1933 – 2021).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist. He was one of the main developers of the standard model of particle physics. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles".
He held the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on elementary particles and physical cosmology was honored with numerous prizes and awards.
Weinberg also had an extensive career as a writer. His first textbook was Gravitation and Cosmology (1972). His three-volume series The Quantum Theory of Fields is considered a classic. He also wrote popular science, beginning with The First Three Minutes. He occasionally wrote articles on various subjects for The New York Review of Books and other periodicals.
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