Related papers: Recollections of Steven Weinberg
Brief recollections by the author of how he interacted with Feynman and was influenced by him.
My personal recollections are presented regarding my interactions with Steven Weinberg and the impact he had in my career from when I was his graduate student until the present.
Contribution to the volume "In Memory of Steven Weinberg" to appear in Nuclear Physics B.
Recollections by the author about how his interactions with John Wheeler influenced his career in physics.
Brief recollections by the author about how he contributed to the production of the Feynman Lectures in Physics
Steven Weinberg productive scientific life teaches us many things, one of the most important of which is the power of his example. This essay contains personal reminiscences and a speculation about gravitational wave propagation based on…
Brief recollections by the author about how his work with Kip Thorne influenced his career in physics.
A collection of short expository essays by the author on various topics in quantum mechanics, quantum cosmology, and physics in general.
A brief remembrance of some aspects of the author's scientific interaction with Stephen Hawking. A contribution to Physics Today's March 14, 2018 web page in which Stephen Hawking is remembered by his colleagues.
These are author's recollections of informal discussions on foundations of quantum mechanics, which happened in his presence in 1970-80s
I present some reminiscences, both personal and scientific, over a lifetime of admiration of, and friendship with, one of the Grandmasters of our subject.
While collecting some personal memories about Julius Wess, I briefly describe some aspects of my recent work on many particle quantum mechanics and second quantization on noncommutative spaces obtained by twisting, and their connection to…
I correct two misapprehensions, one historical and one conceptual, in the recent literature on extensions of the Wigner's Friend thought-experiment. Perhaps fittingly, both concern the accurate description of some quantum physicists'…
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…
We discuss an article by Steven Weinberg expressing his discontent with the usual ways to understand quantum mechanics. We examine the two solutions that he considers and criticizes and propose another one, which he does not discuss, the…
A brief dialogue about quantum entanglement (in Spanish).
This paper collects into one place my replies to the questions posed by Maximilian Schlosshauer in his interview volume about the foundations of quantum mechanics, "Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews" (Springer, 2011).
Some formulas and speculations are presented relative to integrable systems and quantum mechanics.
We present some informal remarks on aspects of relativistic quantum computing.
Steven Weinberg, renowned particle theorist and Nobel laureate, passed away in July 2021. We discuss selections of his work on effective field theory, electroweak unification, and symmetry related topics. We then add a few memories of…