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Sunday, July 3, 2022

Basic timeline of Stephen Weinberg

This post is a basic timeline of physicist Stephen Weinberg (1922-2021). There are 19 events listed below chronologically.

• 1933: Born in New York City
• 1954: Receives bachelor's degree from Cornell University
• 1957: Receives PhD in physics from Princeton University
• 1957: Writes thesis titled The role of strong interactions in decay processes
• 1957: Becomes researcher at Columbia University
• 1959: Becomes researcher at University of California, Berkley
• 1966: Becomes lecturer at Harvard University
• 1967: Becomes visiting professor at MIT
• 1967: Proposes unification of electromagnetism and weak force
• 1970's: Proposes basis for the technicolor theory
• 1973: Becomes professor at Harvard University
• 1977: Publishes The First Three Minutes
• 1979: Proposes renormalization in quantum field theory
• 1979: Receives Nobel Prize in physics
• 1982: Begins teaching at the University of Texas at Austin
• 1995: Publishes The Quantum Theory of Fields
• 2015: Publishes To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
• 2021: Died at age 88 in Austin, Texas

Sources

Wikipedia: Stephen Weinberg, Google Books: The Quantum Theory of Fields