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George Zweig
American physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is a Russian-American physicist. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.[1] He is known for his works with Murray Gell-Mann especially when they created the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his works to neurobiology.
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George Zweig | |
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![]() George Zweig giving a speech at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University | |
Born | (1937-05-20) May 20, 1937 (age 87) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology |
Known for | Quark model |
Awards | Sakurai Prize (2015), MacArthur Fellowship 1981, NAS 1996 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | physics; neurobiology |
Institutions | LANL, MIT |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Feynman |
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He has worked as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, and in the financial services industry.