George Zweig
George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of 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.
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George Zweig giving a speech at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University | |
| Born | May 20, 1937 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Known for | Quark model |
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| Fields | Physics; neurobiology |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Feynman |
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