Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Weinberg has received more than 1,066,532 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Steven Weinberg is the 161st most popular physicist (up from 174th in 2019), the 673rd most popular biography from United States (up from 784th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Physicist.

Weinberg is most famous for his work on the unification of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.