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George Zweig

1937 - Today

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George Zweig (; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Zweig has received more than 211,931 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. George Zweig is the 496th most popular physicist (down from 451st in 2019), the 1,161st most popular biography from Russia (down from 927th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Zweig ranks 496 out of 717. Before him are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, Gunnar Nordström, Vikram Sarabhai, and Michael Green. After him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Michael Berry, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Pyotr Lebedev, Andrei Linde, and Boris Rosing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, George Zweig ranks 222. Before him are Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Geki, Mark Donohue, Maryan Wisniewski, and Mehdi Karroubi. After him are Hildegard Behrens, Boris Cyrulnik, Andrei Bitov, Miguel Trovoada, Tom Stoppard, and Alice Coltrane.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 1,161 out of 3,262. Before him are Zacharias Werner (1768), Vladimir Shadrin (1948), Inna Churikova (1943), Vasily Mishin (1917), Lyudmila Zykina (1929), and Ivan Pyryev (1901). After him are Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Mikhail Prokhorov (1965), Maguba Syrtlanova (1912), Nikolay Beketov (1827), and Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 25. Before him are Vladimir Fock (1898), Yulii Khariton (1904), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), and Boris Podolsky (1896). After him are Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Max Wien (1866), and Aleksandr Stoletov (1839).

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