Steven Weinberg and
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
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Dr. Steven Weinberg
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Steven "Weinberg is a professor of physics and astronomy at UT [The
University of Texas] Austin and is founding director of the Theory Group in
the College of Natural Sciences. [He is] well known for his development of
a field theory that unifies the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces, and
for other major contributions to physics and cosmology ...
Weinberg's work has been honored with numerous prizes, including the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1979 and the National Medal of Science in 1991.
Weinberg is the author of the prize-winning book The First Three Minutes:
A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (which has been translated into
22 foreign languages) as well as Gravitation and Cosmology, The Discovery of
Subatomic Particles, Dreams of a Final Theory
and The Quantum Theory of Fields. ... Weinberg was the recipient of the
Scientist as Poet prize from Rockefeller University for "extraordinary
achievements in conveying — with passionate clarity — the ideas,
history, explanatory power and aesthetic dimensions of fundamental physics." The
citation mentioned two of Weinberg's books.
He also has published more than 250 articles on elementary particle physics,
cosmology and other subjects ..."
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Additional information about Steven Weinberg and his research is available
in full-text and on the Web.
Documents:
Law of Conservation of Muons, DOE Technical Report, February 1961
A Model of Leptons; Physical Review Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 21:1264–1266, November
20, 1967
Physical Processes in a Convergent Theory of the Weak and Electromagnetic
Interactions; Physical Review Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 24: 1688–1691, December
13, 1971
Effects of a Neutral Intermediate Boson in Semileptonic Processes; Physical Review D, Vol. 5, Issue 6: 1412–1417, March 15, 1972
Mixing Angle in Renormalizable Theories of Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions; Physical Review D, Vol. 5, Issue 8: 1962–1967, April 15, 1972
General Theory of Broken Local Symmetries; Physical Review D, Vol. 7, Issue 4: 1068–1082, February 15, 1973
Current Algebra and Gauge Theories. I; Physical Review D, Vol. 8, Issue 2: 605–625, July 15, 1973
Conceptual Foundations of the Unified Theory of Weak and Electromagnetic
Interactions; Review of Modern Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 3: 515–523, July 1980
(Nobel Lecture)
100
years of elementary particles [Beam Line, vol. 27, issue 1, Spring 1997, DOE Technical Report, April 1997
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Additional Web Pages:
Professor Steven Weinberg, Department of Physics, The University
of Texas at Austin
Weinberg articles or excerpts from The New York Review of Books
- Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? - May 31, 2001
- A Designer Universe? - October 21, 1999
Essay by Steven Weinberg Recognized, On Campus, November 2, 2000 - VOL. 27, NO. 22
- Steven Weinberg on Scientific Revolutions, excerpts from "The Revolution That Didn't Happen", October 8,
1998
- Sokal's Hoax - August 8, 1996
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