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Weinberg, Steven was born on May 3, 1933 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Fred and Eva (Israel) Weinberg.
(The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author ...)
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegance and clarity, he retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity and quantum mechanics to the notion of super-strings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others. But Weinberg asks as many questions as he answers, among them: Why does each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful? And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and religious faith? Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there.
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Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg combines his exceptional physical insight with his gift for clear exposition to provide a concise introduction to modern quantum mechanics. Ideally suited to a one-year graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Readers are introduced to the subject through a review of the history of quantum mechanics and an account of classic solutions of the Schrödinger equation, before quantum mechanics is developed in a modern Hilbert space approach. The textbook covers many topics not often found in other books on the subject, including alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation, Bloch waves and band structure, the Wigner-Eckart theorem, magic numbers, isospin symmetry, the Dirac theory of constrained canonical systems, general scattering theory, the optical theorem, the 'in-in' formalism, the Berry phase, Landau levels, entanglement and quantum computing. Problems are included at the ends of chapters, with solutions available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107028722.
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Two friendsone short and one tallmust come up with a plan to overcome a serious height restriction so they can ride a roller coaster together in this delightfully cheeky and bright picture book from the author of Rex Finds an Egg! Egg! Egg! Best friends Frank and Harold do everything as a pair. And at the fair, they want to ride the roller coaster together, too! But one of them isnt tall enough. Can this energetic duo think outside the box and figure out a way to overcome the height restriction and ride the roller coaster? Find out in this adorable picture book that celebrates the value of friendship and encourages problem solving from Steven Weinberg.
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Join a rambunctious T. rex as he journeys across the prehistoric landscape to save the one object he lovesand maybe morein this boisterous picture book adventure for the youngest dinosaur fans! Rex finds an Egg. Egg! Egg!! But theres a volcano thats about to blow. Blow? Blow!! Can this young dinosaur save his glorious new prize? Find out in this creative, cretaceous romp!
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(Preliminaries · the general theory of relativity · applic...)
Preliminaries · the general theory of relativity · applications of feneral relativity · formal developments · cosmology
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This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the universe began, and how we know.
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This commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents provides an historical account of key events in the physics of the twentieth century that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. Steven Weinberg introduces the fundamentals of classical physics that played crucial roles in these discoveries. Connections are shown throughout the book between the historic discoveries of subatomic particles and contemporary research at the frontiers of physics, including the most current discoveries of new elementary particles. Steven Weinberg was Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard before moving to The University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group. At Texas he holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science and is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research has spanned a broad range of topics in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology, and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics, the Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Madison Medal of Princeton University, and the Oppenheimer Prize. In addition to the well-known treatise, Gravitation and Cosmololgy, he has written several books for general readers, including the prize-winning The First Three Minutes (now translated into 22 foreign languages), and most recently Dreams of a Final Theory (Pantheon Books, 1993). He has also written a textbook The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol.I, Vol. II, and Vol. III (Cambridge).
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A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberga thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Platos Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the worldthey did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.
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This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-semester graduate course. The first part deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous average universe; the second part concentrates on the departures from the average universe. Throughout the book the author presents detailed analytic calculations of cosmological phenomena, rather than just report results obtained elsewhere by numerical computation. The book is up to date, and gives detailed accounts of topics such as recombination, microwave background polarization, leptogenesis, gravitational lensing, structure formation, and multifield inflation, that are usually treated superficially if at all in treatises on cosmology. Copious references to current research literature are supplied. Appendices include a brief introduction to general relativity, and a detailed derivation of the Boltzmann equation for photons and neutrinos used in calculations of cosmological evolution. Also provided is an assortment of problems.
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Weinberg, Steven was born on May 3, 1933 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Fred and Eva (Israel) Weinberg.
Bachelor, Cornell Univercity, 1954;
postgraduate, Copenhagen Institute Theoretical Physics, 1954-1955;
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1957;
AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1973;
Doctor of Science (honorary), Knox College, 1978;
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1978;
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Rochester, 1979;
Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, 1979;
Doctor of Science (honorary), CUNY, 1980;
Doctor of Science (honorary), Clark University, 1982;
Doctor of Science (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1984;
Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1990;
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Salamanca, 1992;
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Padua, 1992.
Research associate, instructor, Columbia University, 1957-1959;
research physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 1959-1960;
member of faculty, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1969;
professor physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1964-1969;
visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967-1969;
professor physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969-1973;
Higgins professor physics, Harvard University, 1973-1983;
senior scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory, 1973-1983;
Josey professor science, University Texas, Austin, since 1982;
senior consultant, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, since 1983. Consultant Institute Defense Analyses, Washington, 1960-1973, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1973. Sloan fellow, 1961-1965.
Chair in physics College de France, 1971. Member President's Committee on National Medal of Science, 1979-1982, Council of Scholars, Library. of Congress, 1983-1985. Senior advisory La Jolla Institute.
Member Committee on International Securityand Arms Control, National Research Council, 1981, Board on Physics & Astronomy, 1989-1990. Director Jerusalem Winter School Theoretical Physics, 1983-1994. Member of advisory county Texas Superconducting Supercollider High Energy Research Facility, 1987.
Loeb lecturer in physics Harvard University, 1966-1967, Morris Loeb visiting professor physics, since 1983. Richtmeyer lecturer, 1974. Scott lecturer Cavendish Laboratory,1975.
Silliman lecturer Yale University, 1977. Lauritsen Memorial lecturer California Institute Technology, 1979. Bethe lecturer Cornell Univercity, 1979.
De Shalit lecturer Weizman Institute, 1979. Cherwell-Simon lecturer University of Oxford, 1983. Bampton lecturer Columbia University, 1983.
Einstein lecturer Israel Academy Arts and Sciences, 1984. Hilldale lecturer University of Wisconsin, 1985. Clark lecturer University Texas, Dallas, 1986.
Dirac lecturer U. Cambridge, 1986. Klein lecturer U. Stockholm, 1989. Brittin lecturer U. Colorado, 1994.
Sackler lecturer U. Copenhagen, 1994. Gibbs lecturer American Mathematics Society, 1996, Bochner lecturer Rice U., 1997. Sanchezlectr. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical International U., 1998.
Sloan fellow, 1961-1965. Member Supercollider Science Policy Committee, 1989-1993.
(Two friendsone short and one tallmust come up with a pl...)
(The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author ...)
( A masterful commentary on the history of science from t...)
(This commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituen...)
(This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and ...)
(Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg combines his exceptional p...)
( This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel...)
(Preliminaries · the general theory of relativity · applic...)
(Join a rambunctious T. rex as he journeys across the preh...)
Board advisors Santa Barbara Institute Theoretical Physics, 1983-1986. Board overseers SSC Accelerator, 1984-1986. Board directors Headliners Foundation, since 1993.
Member NAS (supercollider site evaluation committee 1987-1988), American Academy Artsand Sciences (past councilor), American Physical Society (past councilor at large, panel on faculty positions commission on status of women in physics), Einstein Archivess (advisory board since 1988), International Astronomical Union, Council Foreign Rels., American Philosophical Society, Royal Society London (foreign member), American Medieval Academy, History of Science Society, Philosophical Society Texas (president 1994), Texas Institute of Letters, Phi Beta Kappa.
Medieval history.
Married Louise Goldwasser, July 6, 1954. 1 child, Elizabeth.