Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg was born in 1933 in New York City.{{Cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/weinberg/biographical/|access-date=July 27, 2021|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}} His parents were Jewish{{cite web|title=Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize|url=https://www.jta.org/1979/10/16/archive/three-scientists-two-jewish-and-one-moslem-win-nobel-prize|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=October 16, 1979}} immigrants;{{cite web|url=http://www.infogeist.dk/html/egaagymnasium/infogeist-eg12i-fy/eg11iphysicsc/topic_1-8.html|title=Muster Mark's Quarks|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725212618/http://www.infogeist.dk/html/egaagymnasium/infogeist-eg12i-fy/eg11iphysicsc/topic_1-8.html|archive-date=July 25, 2014}} his father, Frederick, worked as a court stenographer, while his mother, Eva (Israel), was a housewife.{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bpwein.html|title=steven Weinberg 1933– |publisher=PBS |date=1998 |accessdate=July 26, 2021}} Becoming interested in science at age 16 through a chemistry set handed down by a cousin, he graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950.{{Cite web |title=Steven Weinberg – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/weinberg-bio.html |website=nobelprize.org |access-date=January 25, 2016 }} He was in the same graduating class as Sheldon Glashow, whose research, independent of Weinberg's, resulted in their (and Abdus Salam's) sharing the 1979 Nobel in physics.{{cite web |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11503008.html| title=Steven Weinberg |publisher=American Institute of Physics |accessdate=July 26, 2021}}

In a memoir published after his death in 2021, Weinberg wrote: "Whatever native intelligence and intellectual curiosity I may have, I owe to my parents, in particular, my father."{{Cite journal |last=Farmelo |first=Graham |date=2025-01-27 |title=How a boy from the Bronx unearthed the workings of the Universe |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00218-9 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=637 |issue=8048 |pages=1041–1043 |doi=10.1038/d41586-025-00218-9 |issn=1476-4687}}

Weinberg received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1954. There he resided at the Telluride House. He then went to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where he started his graduate studies and research. After one year, Weinberg moved to Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1957, completing his dissertation, "The role of strong interactions in decay processes", under the supervision of Sam Treiman.{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/2844622|title=The role of strong interactions in decay processes|first=Steven|last=Weinberg|date=June 16, 1957|via=catalog.princeton.edu}}

After completing his Ph.D., Weinberg worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University (1957–59) and University of California, Berkeley (1959) and then was promoted to faculty at Berkeley (1960–66). He did research in a variety of topics of particle physics, such as the high energy behavior of quantum field theory, symmetry breaking,{{cite web|url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/32522|title=From BCS to the LHC – CERN Courier|date=January 21, 2008}} pion scattering, infrared photons and quantum gravity (soft graviton theorem).A partial list of this work is: {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=118|pages=838–849|year=1960|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.118.838|title=High-Energy Behavior in Quantum Field Theory|issue=3|bibcode=1960PhRv..118..838W }}; {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=127|pages=965–970|year=1962|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.127.965|title=Broken Symmetries|last2=Salam|first2=Abdus|last3=Weinberg|first3=Steven|issue=3|bibcode=1962PhRv..127..965G }}; {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett.|volume=17|pages=616–621|year=1966|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.17.616|title=Pion Scattering Lengths|issue=11|bibcode=1966PhRvL..17..616W }}; {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=140|pages=B516–B524|year=1965|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.140.B516|title=Infrared Photons and Gravitons|issue=2B|bibcode=1965PhRv..140..516W }} It was also during this time that he developed the approach to quantum field theory described in the first chapters of his book The Quantum Theory of Fields{{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=133|pages=B1318–B1332|year=1964|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.133.B1318|title=Feynman Rules for Any spin|issue=5B|bibcode=1964PhRv..133.1318W }}; {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=134|pages=B882–B896|year=1964|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.134.B882|title=Feynman Rules for Any spin. II. Massless Particles|issue=4B|bibcode=1964PhRv..134..882W }}; {{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev.|volume=181|pages=1893–1899|year=1969|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.181.1893|title=Feynman Rules for Any spin. III|issue=5|bibcode=1969PhRv..181.1893W }} and started to write his textbook Gravitation and Cosmology, having taken up an interest in general relativity after the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/science/steven-weinberg-groundbreaking-nobelist-in-physics-dies-at-88.html |title=Steven Weinberg, Groundbreaking Nobelist in Physics, Dies at 88 |author=McClain, Dylan Loeb |work=New York Times |accessdate=July 26, 2021 |date=July 26, 2021}} He was also appointed the senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Quantum Theory of Fields spanned three volumes and over 1,500 pages, and is often regarded as the leading book in the field.

In 1966, Weinberg left Berkeley and accepted a lecturer position at Harvard. In 1967 he was a visiting professor at MIT. It was in that year at MIT that Weinberg proposed his model of unification of electromagnetism and nuclear weak forces (such as those involved in beta-decay and kaon-decay),{{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett.|volume=19|pages=1264–1266|url=http://astrophysics.fic.uni.lodz.pl/100yrs/pdf/12/066.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112142352/http://astrophysics.fic.uni.lodz.pl/100yrs/pdf/12/066.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 12, 2012|year=1967|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.1264|title=A Model of Leptons|issue=21|bibcode=1967PhRvL..19.1264W}} with the masses of the force-carriers of the weak part of the interaction being explained by spontaneous symmetry breaking. One of its fundamental aspects was the prediction of the existence of the Higgs boson. Weinberg's model, now known as the electroweak unification theory, had the same symmetry structure as that proposed by Glashow in 1961: both included the then-unknown weak interaction mechanism between leptons, known as neutral current and mediated by the Z boson. The 1973 experimental discovery of weak neutral currents{{cite journal |author=Haidt, D. |year=2004 |title=The discovery of the weak neutral currents |journal=CERN Courier}}[http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/29168] (mediated by this Z boson) was one verification of the electroweak unification. The paper by Weinberg in which he presented this theory is one of the most cited works ever in high-energy physics.INSPIRE-HEP: [http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2015/alltime.html Top Cited Articles of All Time (2015 edition)]

After his 1967 seminal work on the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, Weinberg continued his work in many aspects of particle physics, quantum field theory, gravity, supersymmetry, superstrings and cosmology. In the years after 1967, the full Standard Model of elementary particle theory was developed through the work of many contributors. In it, the weak and electromagnetic interactions already unified by the work of Weinberg, Salam and Glashow, are made consistent with a theory of the strong interactions between quarks, in one overarching theory. In 1973, Weinberg proposed a modification of the Standard Model that did not contain that model's fundamental Higgs boson. Also during the 1970s, he proposed a theory later known as technicolor, in which new strong interactions resolve the hierarchy problem.{{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Phys. Rev. D|volume=13|pages=974–996|year=1976|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.13.974|title=Implications of dynamical symmetry breaking|issue=4|bibcode=1976PhRvD..13..974W }}{{cite journal |author1=Weinberg, S. |author1-link=Steven Weinberg |author2=Susskind, L. |title=Implications of dynamical symmetry breaking: An addendum |journal=Physical Review |volume=D19 |date=1979 |issue=4 |pages=1277–1280 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.19.1277 |bibcode=1979PhRvD..19.1277W }}{{cite journal |author=Susskind, Leonard |title=Dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Weinberg-Salam theory |journal=Physical Review |volume=D20 |date=1979 |issue=10 |pages=2619–2625 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.20.2619 |bibcode=1979PhRvD..20.2619S|osti=1446928 |s2cid=17294645 }}

Weinberg became Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University in 1973, a post he held until 1983. In 1979 he pioneered the modern view on the renormalization aspect of quantum field theory that considers all quantum field theories effective field theories and changed the viewpoint of previous work (including his own in his 1967 paper) that a sensible quantum field theory must be renormalizable.{{cite journal|author=Weinberg, S.|journal=Physica|doi=10.1016/0378-4371(79)90223-1|pages=327–340|year=1979|title=Phenomenological Lagrangians|volume=96|issue=1–2|bibcode=1979PhyA...96..327W }} This approach allowed the development of effective theory of quantum gravity,{{cite journal|author=Donoghue, J. F. |journal=Phys. Rev. D|volume=50|pages=3874–3888|year=1994|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.50.3874|pmid=10018030|title=General relativity as an effective field theory: The leading quantum corrections|issue=6|arxiv=gr-qc/9405057 |bibcode=1994PhRvD..50.3874D |s2cid=14352660}} low energy QCD, heavy quark effective field theory and other developments, and is a topic of considerable interest in current research.{{cite web|url=http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/93/1/Hartmann.pdf |title=Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation| author=Hartmann, Stephan |accessdate=July 26, 2021}}

In 1979, some six years after the experimental discovery of the neutral currents—i.e. the discovery of the inferred existence of the Z boson—but after the 1978 experimental discovery of the theory's predicted amount of parity violation due to Z bosons' mixing with electromagnetic interactions,{{cite conference | author=Charles Y. Prescott | title=Parity violation in inelastic scattering of polarized electrons | url=https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/2000/slac-pub-2218.pdf | doi=10.1063/1.31766 | journal=AIP Conference Proceedings | volume=51 | page=202 | publisher=American Institute of Physics | conference=Sixth Trieste Conference on Particle Physics | location=Trieste, Italy | date=June 30, 1978}} Weinberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics with Glashow and Salam, who had independently proposed a theory of electroweak unification based on spontaneous symmetry breaking.

In 1982 Weinberg moved to the University of Texas at Austin as the Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Regents Chair in Science, and started a theoretical physics group at the university that now has eight full professors and is one of the leading research groups in the field in the U.S.

Weinberg is frequently listed among the top scientists with the highest research effect indices, such as the h-index and the creativity index.In 2006 Weinberg had the second-highest creativity index among physicists [http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2006/aug/17/worlds-most-creative-physicist-revealed World's most creative physicist revealed]. physicsworld.com (June 17, 2006). The theoretical physicist Peter Woit called Weinberg "arguably the dominant figure in theoretical particle physics during its period of great success from the late sixties to the early eighties", calling his contribution to electroweak unification "to this day at the center of the Standard Model, our best understanding of fundamental physics".{{cite web|url=https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12413|title=Steven Weinberg 1933–2021 |date=July 24, 2021|accessdate=July 25, 2021|author=Woit, Peter}} Science News named him along with fellow theorists Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman the leading physicists of the era, commenting, "Among his peers, Weinberg was one of the most respected figures in all of physics or perhaps all of science".{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/steven-weinberg-death-physics-electromagnetism-standard-model |title=With Steven Weinberg's death, physics loses a titan |author=Siegfried, Tom |date=July 24, 2021 |accessdate=July 26, 2021}} Sean Carroll called Weinberg one of the “best physicists we had; one of the best thinkers of any variety” who “exhibited extraordinary verve and clarity of thought through the whole stretch of a long and productive life”,{{cite web|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/us-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-steven-weinberg-dies-aged-88/ |title=US Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88 |author=Banks, Michael |date=July 26, 2021 |accessdate=July 26, 2021}} while John Preskill called him "one of the most accomplished scientists of our age, and a particularly eloquent spokesperson for the scientific worldview". Brian Greene said that Weinberg had an “astounding ability to see into the deep workings of nature” that “profoundly shaped our understanding of the universe". Upon the awarding of the Breakthrough Prize in 2020, one of the founders of the prizes, Yuri Milner, called Weinberg a “key architect” of “one of the most successful physical theories ever”, while string theorist Juan Maldacena, the chair of the selection committee, said, “Steven Weinberg has developed many of the key theoretical tools that we use for the description of nature at a fundamental level".{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/11/utrsquos-steven-weinberg-wins-3m-special-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics/42575103/|title=UT's Steven Weinberg wins $3M Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics|author=Mekelburg, Madlin |date=September 11, 2020 |accessdate=July 26, 2020 |work=Austin American-Statesman}}

File: Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, December, 2014.jpg

Besides his scientific research, Weinberg was a public spokesman for science, testifying before Congress in support of the Superconducting Super Collider, writing articles for The New York Review of Books,[http://www.nybooks.com/authors/201 Articles by Steven Weinberg]. The New York Review of Books. Nybooks.com. Retrieved on July 27, 2012. and giving various lectures on the larger meaning of science. His books on science written for the public combine the typical scientific popularization with what is traditionally considered history and philosophy of science and atheism. His first popular science book, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (1977), described the start of the universe with the Big Bang and enunciated a case for its expansion.{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/physicist-steven-weinberg-dies.html| title=Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has died| author=ghose, Tia | website=Live Science|date=July 25, 2021 |accessdate=July 26, 2021}}

Although still teaching physics, in later years he turned his hand to the history of science, efforts that culminated in To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (2015).{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/17/eye-present-whig-history-science/|title=Eye on the Present—The Whig History of Science|last=Weinberg|first=Steven |journal=The New York Review of Books|access-date=February 9, 2016|volume=62 |number=20 |pages=82, 84 |year=2015}} A hostile review{{Cite web |last=Shapin |first=Stephen |date=February 13, 2015 |title=Why Scientists Shouldn't Write History |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-to-explain-the-world-by-steven-weinberg-1423863226 |website=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=February 11, 2016 }} in the Wall Street Journal by Steven Shapin attracted a number of commentaries,{{Cite web |last=Bouterse |first=Jeroen |date=May 31, 2015 |title=Weinberg, Whiggism, and the World in History of Science |url=http://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2015/05/31/weinberg-whiggism-and-the-world-in-history-of-science/ |website=Shells and Pebbles |access-date=February 11, 2016 }} a response by Weinberg, and an exchange of views between Weinberg and Arthur Silverstein in the NYRB in February 2016.{{Cite journal |last1=Silverstein |first1=Arthur |last2=Weinberg |first2=Steven |year=2016 |title=The Whig History of Science: An Exchange |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/the-whig-history-of-science-an-exchange/ |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=63 |number=3 |access-date=February 11, 2016 }}

In 2016, Weinberg became a default leader for faculty and students opposed to a new law allowing the carrying of concealed guns in UT classrooms. He announced that he would prohibit guns in his classes, and said he would stand by his decision to violate university regulations in this matter even if faced with a lawsuit.{{Cite web|title=Nobel Laureate Becomes Reluctant Anti-Gun Leader, by Madlin Mekelburg|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/26/nobel-something/|website=The Texas Tribune|access-date=February 9, 2016|first=Madlin|last=Mekelburg|date=January 26, 2016}} Weinberg never retired and taught at UT until his death.

In 1954 Weinberg married legal scholar Louise Goldwasser and they had a daughter, Elizabeth.

Weinberg died on July 23, 2021, at age 88 at a hospital in Austin, where he had been undergoing treatment for several weeks.{{Cite web|title=UT Austin Mourns Death of World-Renowned Physicist Steven Weinberg|date=July 24, 2021 |url=https://news.utexas.edu/2021/07/24/ut-austin-mourns-death-of-world-renowned-physicist-steven-weinberg/|access-date=July 24, 2021|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=July 26, 2021|title=Steven Weinberg 1933–2021|url=https://cerncourier.com/a/steven-weinberg-1933-2021/|access-date=July 31, 2021|website=CERN Courier|language=en-GB}}

Weinberg's papers were donated to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.[https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01539 'Steven Weinberg: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center' (Website UTexas)]

Weinberg identified as a liberal.{{cite book |last= Weinberg |first= Steven |title= Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries |year= 2001 |chapter= Zionism and Its Adversaries |pages= 181–183 |publisher= Harvard University Press |isbn= 0-674-01120-1 }}

Weinberg was an atheist.{{cite journal

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Weinberg was known for his support of Israel, which he characterized as "the 'most exposed salient' in a war between liberal democracies and Muslim theocracies."{{cite news |author= Ronan McGreevy |title= Nobel winner defends Israel's actions |newspaper=The Irish Times |date= February 12, 2009 |url= https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nobel-winner-defends-israel-s-actions-1.697894}} He wrote the 1997 essay "Zionism and Its Adversaries" on the issue.The essay was first published in the "Zionism at 100" issue of The New Republic (September 8–15, 1997, pp. 22–23). It was later reprinted in his book of collected essays, Facing Up.

In the 2000s, Weinberg canceled trips to universities in the United Kingdom because of the British boycotts of Israel. At the time, he said: "Given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than antisemitism."{{cite news |title= Nobel laureate cancels London trip due to anti-Semitism |date= May 24, 2007 | work=Ynetnews |access-date= June 1, 2007 |url= http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3404128,00.html}}

File: Queen Beatrix meets Nobel Laureates in 1983b.jpg meets Nobel laureates in 1983. Weinberg is third from left.]]

• Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from eleven institutions: University of Chicago, Knox College, University of Rochester, Yale University, City University of New York, Dartmouth College, Weizmann Institute, Clark University, Washington College, Columbia University, Bates College.{{cite web | title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 | website=NobelPrize.org | date=July 25, 2021 | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/weinberg/biographical/ | access-date=July 25, 2021}}
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1968
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected 1971{{Cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=American Physical Society}}
• National Academy of Sciences, elected 1972
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, 1973{{cite book |title=Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards |last=Walter |first=Claire |year=1982 |page=[https://archive.org/details/winnersblueribbo0000walt/page/438 438] |publisher=Facts on File Inc. |isbn=978-0-87196-386-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/winnersblueribbo0000walt/page/438 }}{{cite journal |author= |title=Weinberg awarded Oppenheimer Prize |journal=Physics Today |publisher=American Institute of Physics |date=March 1973 |page=87|doi=10.1063/1.3127994 |bibcode=1973PhT....26c..87. |volume=26|issue=3 }}
• Richtmyer Memorial Award (1974)
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977
• Steel Foundation Science Writing Award, 1977, for writing The First Three Minutes
• Elliott Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), 1979
• Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979{{Cite journal|last=Wilczek|first=Frank|date=August 6, 2021|title=Steven Weinberg (1933–2021)|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=596|issue=7871|pages=183|doi=10.1038/d41586-021-02170-w|bibcode=2021Natur.596..183W|s2cid=236946383|doi-access=free}}
• Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1981{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112185159/https://royalsociety.org/people/steven-weinberg-12503/|archive-date=November 12, 2015|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/steven-weinberg-12503/|title=Professor Steven Weinberg ForMemRS|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}}
• Elected to American Philosophical Society (1982)
• James Madison Medal of Princeton University, 1991
• National Medal of Science, 1991
• President of the Philosophical Society of Texas, 1992{{cite web | title=Weinberg, Steven, 1933– | website=Niels Bohr Library & Archives | url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11503008.html | access-date=July 25, 2021}}
• Emperor Has No Clothes Award by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, 1999{{Cite web|url=https://ffrf.org/outreach/awards/emperor-has-no-clothes-award/steven-weinberg/|title=Steven Weinberg}}
• Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 1999{{cite web | title=UT Austin Mourns Death of World-Renowned Physicist Steven Weinberg | website=UT News | date=July 24, 2021 | url=https://news.utexas.edu/2021/07/24/ut-austin-mourns-death-of-world-renowned-physicist-steven-weinberg/ | access-date=July 25, 2021}}
• Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association, 2002{{cite web | title=Annual Humanist Awardees | website=American Humanist Association | date=September 17, 2020 | url=https://americanhumanist.org/awardees/ | access-date=July 25, 2021}}
• Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences, American Philosophical Society, 2004{{cite web|url=http://www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/franklinscience |title=Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences Recipients |publisher=American Philosophical Society |access-date=November 26, 2011}}
• James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2009{{cite web | title=Weinberg receives James Joyce Award | website=UT News | date=February 24, 2009 | url=https://news.utexas.edu/2009/02/24/weinberg-receives-james-joyce-award/ | access-date=July 25, 2021}}
• Breakthrough Prize, 2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/ut-scientist-earns-top-award-in-physics/269-f0c2450f-1d42-4c7b-8816-ab22b2913a4f|title=UT professor wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics|date=September 10, 2020 |publisher=KVUE}}{{cite web | title=Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Steven Weinberg | website=Breakthrough Prize | url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3871 | access-date=July 25, 2021}}

A list of Weinberg's publications can be found on arXiv{{Cite web|url=https://arxiv.org/find/hep-th/1/au:+Weinberg_S/0/1/0/all/0/1|title=arXiv.org Search|website=arxiv.org}} and Scopus.{{Scopus|id=17037038700}}

• Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (1972)
• The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (1977, updated with new afterword in 1993, {{ISBN|0-465-02437-8}})
• The Discovery of Subatomic Particles (1983)
• Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (1987; with Richard Feynman)
• Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993), {{ISBN|0-09-922391-0}}
• The Quantum Theory of Fields (three volumes: I Foundations 1995, II Modern Applications 1996, III Supersymmetry 2000,{{cite journal|author=Sethi, Savdeep|title=Review: The quantum theory of fields. III Supersymmetry, by Steven Weinberg|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=2002|volume=39|issue=3|pages=433–439|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2002-39-03/S0273-0979-02-00944-8/S0273-0979-02-00944-8.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-02-00944-8|doi-access=free}} Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|0-521-67053-5}}, {{ISBN|0-521-67054-3}}, {{ISBN|0-521-66000-9}})
• Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (2001, 2003, HUP)
• Glory and Terror: The Coming Nuclear Danger (2004, NYRB)
• Cosmology (2008, OUP)
• Lake Views: This World and the Universe (2010), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|0-674-03515-1}}.
• Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (2012, second edition 2015, CUP)
• To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (2015), Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, {{ISBN|978-0-06-234665-0}}
• Third Thoughts (2018), Belknap Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-97532-3}}
• Lectures on Astrophysics (2019, CUP, {{ISBN|978-1-108-41507-1}})
• Foundations of Modern Physics (2021, CUP, {{ISBN|978-1-108-84176-4}})

• {{cite journal | last=Weinberg | first=Steven | title=A Model of Leptons | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=19 | issue=21 | date=November 20, 1967 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.19.1264 | pages=1264–1266| bibcode=1967PhRvL..19.1264W | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Feinberg | first1=G. | last2=Weinberg | first2=S. | title=Law of Conservation of Muons | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=6 | issue=7 | date=April 1, 1961 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.6.381 | pages=381–383| bibcode=1961PhRvL...6..381F }}
• {{cite report | last1=Pais | first1=Abraham | last2=Weinberg | first2=Steven | last3=Quigg | first3=Chris | last4=Riordan | first4=Michael | last5=Panofsky | first5=Wolfgang K.H. | last6=Trimble | first6=Virginia | title=100 years of elementary particles [Beam Line, vol. 27, issue 1, Spring 1997] | publisher=Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) | date=April 1, 1997 | doi=10.2172/790903| doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Weinberg | first1=S | year=2010 | title=Pions in Large N Quantum Chromodynamics | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.261601 | journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. | volume=105 | issue=26| page=261601 |arxiv=1009.1537 |bibcode=2010PhRvL.105z1601W | pmid=21231642| s2cid=46210811 }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Weinberg | first1=S | year=2012 | title=Collapse of the State Vector | arxiv=1109.6462 | journal=Phys. Rev. A | volume=85 | issue=6| page=062116 | doi=10.1103/physreva.85.062116|bibcode=2012PhRvA..85f2116W | s2cid=119273840 }}

• [http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm A Designer Universe?], a refutation of attacks on the theories of evolution and cosmology (e.g., those conducted under the rubric of intelligent design) is based on a talk given in April 1999 at the Conference on Cosmic Design of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. This and other works express Weinberg's strongly held position that scientists should be less passive in defending science against anti-science religiosity.
• [http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7992 Beautiful Theories], an article reprinted from Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg in 1992 which focuses on the nature of beauty in physical theories.
• [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/crisis-big-science/ The Crisis of Big Science], May 10, 2012, New York Review of Books. Weinberg places the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider in the context of a bigger national and global socio-economic crisis, including a general crisis in funding for science research and the provision of adequate education, healthcare, transportation, and communication infrastructure, and criminal justice and law enforcement.

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• {{cite journal |last1=Preskill |first1=John |author1-link=John Preskill |title=Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) |journal=Science |department=Retrospective |date=September 3, 2021 |volume=373 |issue=6559 |pages=1092 |doi=10.1126/science.abl8187|pmid=34516845 |bibcode=2021Sci...373.1092P |s2cid=237506142 |doi-access=free }}
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