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Steven Weinberg

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The Resume

    (May 3, 1933-July 23, 2021)
    Born in New York City, New York
    Theoretical physicist
    Co-recipient (with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in unifying the weak nuclear force with electromagnetism (1979)
    Wrote ‘Gravitation and Cosmology’ (1972), ‘The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe’ (1977), ‘Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature’ (1993), and ‘To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science’ (2015)

Why he might be annoying:

    He dismissed Plato as ‘silly’ and Aristotle as ‘tedious.’
    He admitted that he was initially attracted to the steady-state model of the universe (before concluding that the evidence supported the Big Bang theory) because ‘it least resembles the account given in Genesis.’
    He wrote, ‘The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.’

Why he might not be annoying:

    He taught himself calculus while in high school.
    He was married to Louise Goldwasser for 67 years.
    His unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces is one of the most citied papers in the history of theoretical physics.
    The New York Times noted, ‘He possessed a rare ability among scientists to communicate and explain abstruse scientific ideas to the public.’
    He said, ‘If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 139 Votes: 46.76% Annoying