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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When Weinberg talks about fly fishing, he speaks of it less as a single hobby than a constellation of interests, where each angler finds their own corner to obsess over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Goldman Sachs’ senior partner Sidney Weinberg was a close adviser, and in 1956 he guided Ford Motor to a record-setting $657.9 External link million IPO.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 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

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