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Steven Weinberg

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Noun1.Steven Weinberg - United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933)Steven Weinberg - United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933)


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9) Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics who is also a rather outspoken atheist, concluded his excellent description of the way in which modern cosmology has been able to understand the universe from the first minutes of the big bang by asking what meaning can be derived from this knowledge.
Nambu was the first to apply the idea of a spontaneously broken symmetry in elementary particle physics--that is, a symmetry that is an exact property of the underlying equations of the theory, but is not realized in the solutions of these equations, and hence not easily apparent in the properties of elementary particles," says 1979 Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin.
Cosmology Steven Weinberg Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 9780198526827, $90.
 
 
 
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