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 * ﻿﻿﻿ **Steven Weinberg** [[image:http://www.nndb.com/people/945/000099648/steven-weinberg-1-sized.jpg align="center"]]

 **Biography** ﻿Steven Weinberg was born in 1933 in New York City. His inclination toward science received very much encouragement from his father. In 1954, Steven received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and went on to a year of graduate school at what is now the Neils Bohr Institute. He returned the US to complete graduate school at Princeton in 1957. Stevens research during his years working at Columbia and Berkeley included; high energy behavior of Feynman graphs, second-class weak interaction currents, broken symmetries, scattering theory, muon physics and many more.

 **Research** In the 1970's his work focused mostly on the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics. During his year at MIT, he proposed his idea of the unification of weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism. One fundamental aspect of his idea was the prediction of the Higgs boson. Years later the experimental discovery of the Z boson was a verification of the electroweak unification. media type="youtube" key="1_HrQVhgbeo" height="349" width="560"media type="youtube" key="x2cBYRIXG5A" height="349" width="425"

**Awards and Honors** * American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1968
 * ﻿National Academy of Sciences, elected 1972
 * ﻿J. R. Oppenheimer Prize, 1973
 * ﻿Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977
 * ﻿Steel Foundation Science Writing Award, 1977, for authorship of The First Three Minutes (1977)
 * ﻿Elliot Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), 1979
 * ﻿Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
 * Elected to American Philosophical Society, Royal Society of London (Foreign Honorary Member), Philosophical Society of Texas
 * ﻿James Madison Medal of Princeton University, 1991
 * ﻿National Medal of Science, 1991
 * ﻿Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 1999.
 * ﻿2002 Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">﻿James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2009

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Works Cited** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">"Biography: Dr. Steven Weinberg." //PBS: Public Broadcasting Service//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 June 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/bio/wein-body.html>. "Physics - Content by Unit."//Learner.org//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 June 2011. <http://www.learner.org/courses/physics/unit/text.html?unit=2&secNum=7>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">"Steven Weinberg - Autobiography". Nobelprize.org. 10 Jun 2011 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/weinberg-autobio.html ||