Weinberg

British  

/ ˈwaɪnbɜːɡ /

noun

1. Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory

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Weinberg Scientific  

/ wīn′bûrg′ /

1. American nuclear physicist who helped develop the theory of the electroweak force, explaining the relationship between two of the four fundamental forces of nature, the electromagnetic force and the weak force. For this work he shared with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

The problem: “Like Crazy Eddie, for those that remember him, the fees are ‘insane,’” says institutional investor Michael Weinberg, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

He also is a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a professor of chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

Sam Weinberg, an Illinois Democratic strategist who most recently worked on Kat Abughazaleh’s House campaign in the state, told Salon that this early fundraising dominance came to define the race.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Looking ahead: “We doubt that future Michigan survey results will look as rosy as this one, and this report is pretty downbeat,” said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson