Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, whose work helped connect the two Four basic powers kekuatan, died at the age of 88, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) announced Saturday (July 24).
HI’s work was the basis for the Standard Model, an overarching theory of physics that explains how subatomic particles behave. His main work was a small three-page research paper published in 1967 in Physical Review Letters entitled “model leptonIn it, he predicts how the subatomic particles known as the W, Z, and Higgs bosons should behave — years before these particles were experimentally discovered, according to a statement from UT Austin.
This paper also helps standardize electromagnetic power and weak strength He predicted that so-called “weak neutral currents” govern how particles interact, according to the statement. In 1979, Weinberg and physicists Sheldon Glashaw and Abdus Salam were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. Throughout his life, Weinberg would continue to search for a unifying theory that would unify the four forces, according to the statement.
Weinberg was also talented in making physics more accessible to everyone. write “The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, ”(Basic Books, 1977), in interesting and simple language, the first minutes of the infancy of the universe and presents the state of expansion of the universe.
“Professor Weinberg has opened the mysteries of the universe to millions of people, enriching humanity’s understanding of nature and our relationship to the world,” said UT Austin President Jay Hartzel in a statement. “From his students to science enthusiasts, from astrophysicists to public decision-makers, he made a huge difference to our understanding. In short, he changed the world.”
Weinberg was born in New York in 1933. His love of science began with chemical sets, according to the statement. Weinberg writes in his online book that by the time he was 16, he had decided to study theoretical physics Nobel Prize website. He attended Cornell University for his undergraduate work and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1957.
He married his wife Louise in 1954 and had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1963, according to the Nobel Prize website. In 1982, Weinberg moved to UT Austin, where he worked as a professor of physics and astronomy for decades.
The cause of death was not revealed, but the physicist was hospitalized for weeks, Menurut Washington Post.
Originally published in Live Science.
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