Biography of george zweig

American physicist (born )

George Zweig (; born May 30, ) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.^[1] He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces").

He later turned his attention to neurobiology.

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He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.

Early life and education

Zweig was born on May 30, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union,^[2] into a Jewish family.^[2] His father was a structural engineer.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, having taken numerous physics courses as electives. He earned a PhD degree in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in

Career

Zweig proposed the existence of quarks at CERN, independently of Murra