Weinberg, Steven, 1933-, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton, 1957. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that were experimentally verified in 1982-83 when Carlo
Rubbia and Simon
van der Meer identified the subatomic particles
W and
Z. In 1979, Weinberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus
Salam and Lee
Glashow.
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