Steven Weinberg: A Scientific Life
History and Philosophy of Physics
2025-02-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Steven Weinberg was a giant of late 20th Century physics on whose shoulders we stand while groping for the science of the 21st Century. This article provides a too-brief summary of a selection of his many achievements -- eight decades of superlative research, eight classic textbooks, eight best-selling forays into popular science writing and more.
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@article{arxiv.2502.10979,
title = {Steven Weinberg: A Scientific Life},
author = {C. P. Burgess and F. Quevedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10979},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
An abridged version of this article will appear in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. This version provides a lengthier description of a selection of his accomplishments and includes a number of quotations to give the reader a sense of his own voice