{"id":632,"date":"2018-05-31T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:46:19","slug":"steven-weinberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/steven-weinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Weinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-635 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2018\/05\/31104558\/Steven-600x835.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2018\/05\/31104558\/Steven-600x835.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2018\/05\/31104558\/Steven-768x1069.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2018\/05\/31104558\/Steven-500x696.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2018\/05\/31104558\/Steven.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/>Steven Weinberg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> teaches in the Physics and Astronomy Departments of the University of Texas. \u00a0For his work in elementary particle physics and cosmology he has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, the Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, and numerous other awards, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Britain&#8217;s Royal Society, and other academies in the US and abroad. He is the author of graduate-level treatises on cosmology, relativity, quantum field theory and quantum mechanic, as well as books for the general reader, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The First Three Minutes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dreams of a Final Theory, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and most recently his history of the scientific mind, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To Explain the World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He has been a frequent contributor to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Review of books <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and other periodicals. \u00a0Two previous collections of his essays have been published by Harvard University Press, and a third will appear soon. Weinberg received his A. B. from Cornell and his Ph. D. from Princeton, and also holds honorary degrees from eighteen other universities. He taught at Columbia, Berkeley, M.I.T., and Harvard, where he was Higgins Professor of Physics, before coming to Texas in 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Steven Weinberg<\/b> teaches in the Physics and Astronomy Departments of the University of Texas. \u00a0For his work in elementary particle physics and cosmology he has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, the Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, and numerous other awards, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Britain&#8217;s Royal Society, and other academies in the US and abroad. He is the author of graduate-level treatises on cosmology, relativity, quantum field theory and quantum mechanic, as well as books for the general reader,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/steven-weinberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steven Weinberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}