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Steven Weinberg

Steven WeinbergBorn: 3-May-1933
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Electroweak Theory

Father: Frederick Weinberg
Mother: Eva Weinberg
Wife: Louise (law professor, m. 1954)
Daughter: Elizabeth (b. 1963)

    High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (1950)
    University: Cornell University (1954)
    University: PhD, Princeton University (1957)
    Professor: Columbia University
    Professor: University of California at Berkeley
    Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969-73)
    Professor: Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University (1973-82)
    Professor: University of Texas at Austin (1982-)

    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1968
    American Philosophical Society
    Biden for President
    CSICOP
    National Academy of Sciences 1972
    Federation of American Scientists Board of Directors
    JASON
    Kay Bailey Hutchison for Senate
    Royal Society
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1978 (with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam)
    National Medal of Science 1991
    Humanist of the Year 2002

Author of books:
Gravitation and Cosmology (1971)


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