George Zweig
George Zweig | |
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George Zweig giving a speech at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University | |
| Born | May 20, 1937 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Quark model |
| Awards | Sakurai Prize (2015), MacArthur Fellowship 1981, NAS 1996 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physics; neurobiology |
| Institutions | LANL, MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Feynman |
George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is a Russian-American physicist. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.[1] He is known for his works with Murray Gell-Mann especially when they created the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his works to neurobiology.
He has worked as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, and in the financial services industry.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "George Zweig". Mathematics Genealogy Project (North Dakota State University). Retrieved 2010-03-18.