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Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1979 Steven Weinberg was born in New York in 1933 and educated at Cornell, Copenhagen, and Princeton. He taught at Columbia, Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard where he was Higgins Professor of Physics. In 1982 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science and is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. Well known for his development of a field theory that unifies the weak and electromagnetic interactions of the elementary particles, and for other major contributions to physics and cosmology, he is a member both of the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Astronomical Union, among others. Steven Weinberg is author of the prize-winning book The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (which has been translated into 22 foreign languages) as well as Gravitation and Cosmology, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, Dreams of a Final Theory, The Quantum Theory of Fields, and over 200 articles on elementary particle physics, cosmology and other subjects, one of which is the most frequently-cited paper on particle physics of the past fifty years. He is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. He has served as founding Director of the Jerusalem Winter Schools of Theoretical Physics, co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series of monographs on mathematical physics, consultant at the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and member of the board of editors of Daedalus magazine, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and many other boards and committees. He also holds honorary doctoral degrees from the Universities of Barcelona, Chicago, Padua, Rochester, Salamanca, the City University of New York, Clark University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Knox College, Washington College, the Weizmann Institute, and Yale University. His work in physics has been honoured with numerous prizes, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science.

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