George Zweig

Sino ito?

George Zweig (; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his attention to neurobiology. He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.

Career

1. 1937
   Born
2. 2015
   Won Sakurai Prize
3. Member of National Academy of Sciences
4. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
5. Won MacArthur Fellows Program
6. Won Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Moscow
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physicist, neuroscientist, neurobiologist