Birthday: May 3, 1933 (Taurus)
Born In: New York City, USA
Steven Weinberg
(American Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics)
Steven Weinberg was a theoretical physicist who along with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow won the Nobel Prize in physics "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". In addition to the Nobel Prize, he also won several other prestigious awards for his work in the field of elementary particles and cosmology. A prolific writer, he wrote a number of articles on a variety of subjects and he also frequently contributed to ‘The New York Review of Books’ and other periodicals. As a young boy he developed a deep interest in all matters of scientific enquiry and was enthusiastically encouraged by his father to pursue his passion. By the time he was 16 he had realized that theoretical physics was the field that fascinated him the most. It is a coincidence that he went to the same high school and was in the same class as Sheldon Glashow with whom he would share a Nobel Prize years later. He is regarded as one of the top scientists. He was also the President of the Philosophical Society of Texas and served as a consultant at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
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