Physicist Stephen Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize along with two other scientists for their separate contributions to solving the mystery of microparticles and their electromagnetic interactions, has died at the age of 88. University of Texas In Austin he said Saturday.
Weinberg, a professor at the university since the 1980s, died Friday in Austin, Texas, University of Utah spokeswoman Kristin Sinatra said. The physicist was hospitalized for several weeks, but the cause of death was not disclosed, according to Sinatra.
“Steven Weinberg’s death is a loss for the University of Texas and the community,” Utah President Guy Hartzel said in a statement.
“Professor Weinberg has opened up the mysteries of the universe to millions of people, enriching human concepts of nature and our relationship with the world,” Harzl added.
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In 1979, Weinberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with scientists Abdus Salam and Sheldon Lee Glashaw. Their work improves understanding of how everything in the universe is connected, according to a UT statement.
Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech, said the work helped physicists unify two of the four natural forces, the subatomic force known as the nuclear force.
“It’s all about understanding the laws of nature in depth. We are curious beings and want to know how the universe works around us, ”said Carroll.
Weinberg’s work builds on that of Albert Einstein, according to Columbia University string theory physicist Brian Green.
“The idea is that all the forces of nature may actually be the same force … it was Einstein’s dream, that everything might be perfect,” Green said. He pushed this idea forward. He pushed this idea forward by demonstrating (the two forces) which are equal forces. “
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Weinberg, Salam, and Glasaw — working separately — were awarded “for their contributions to the theory of weak and unified electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles, including … website.
a New York A native, Weinberg was a researcher at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, early in his career. He then served on the faculty at Harvard and MIT before joining the faculty at UT in 1982, where he taught physics and astronomy.
Weinberg leaves behind a wife and daughter. Funeral services have not been announced.
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