Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow.
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Shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for the electroweak unification theory. Glashow and Weinberg were high school classmates, but Glashow's own article states Weinberg's research reaching the same result was independent of his, the explicit not-a-collaboration case.
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Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow.
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Born: 1933-05-03
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Born: 1933-05-03
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Died: 2021-07-23
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Died: 2021-07-23
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Infobox fields: Theoretical physics
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Infobox workplaces: University of Texas at Austin(1982-2021) Harvard University(1973-1983) Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1969-1973) University of California, Berkeley(1960-1969) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(1959-1960) Columbia Univ
Member Of: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Texas at Austin(1982-2021) Harvard University(1973-1983) Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1969-1973) University of California, Berkeley(1960-1969) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(1959-1960) Columbia Univ
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Glashow was in the same graduating class as Steven Weinberg, whose own research, independent of Glashow's, would result in Glashow, Weinberg, and Abdus Salam sharing the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
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