Stephen Weinberg

Nobel Prize-wiinning physicist and Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Texas

Steven Weinberg taught at Columbia, Berkeley, MIT and Harvard before moving to the university of Texas as Josey Regental Professor of Science in 1982. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics and has earned a number of further professional honours including the National Medal of Science (1991) and American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Medal (2004).

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Britain's Royal Society, the Royal Irish Academy, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has authored more than 300 articles and 10 books on elementary particle physics, cosmology and other subjects.

Weinberg has served as a consultant at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, as president of the Philosophical Society of Texas and as a member of the Board of Editors of Daedalus magazine, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the JASON group of defense consultants and many other boards and committees.

Educated at Cornell, Copenhagen and Princeton, he also holds honorary doctoral degrees from 16 other universities, including Chicago, Columbia, McGill, Padua, Salamanca and Yale.