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Steven Weinberg talks to Jack Klaff: part I

25 Aug 2009

Speakers: Jack Klaff, Stephen Weinberg

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In this in-depth and intimate interview, Steven Weinberg talks about an early interest in chemistry, his education, and the power and thrill of mathematics. He talks of his time at the Niels Bohr Institute and the people he knew there, speaks at length on Dirac and his theories of antimatter and negative energy, and tells us of his relationship with Richard Feinman, among others.

Weinberg goes on to discuss winning the 1979 Nobel Prize, his work, an early involvement with Superstring theory, and his current work in the field of Cosmology.

Chapters

• Steven Weinberg: On his youth

  11 min 10 sec

• Steven Weinberg: On the power of mathematics

  5 min

• Steven Weinberg: On scientists as sages and magicians

  5 min 25

• Steven Weinberg: At the Neil's Bohr Institute

  6 min 35 sec

• Steven Weinberg: On Dirac, antimatter and negative energy

  8 min 16 sec

• Steven Weiberg: On Richard Feinman

  7 min 55 sec

• Steven Weinberg: On his 1979 Nobel Prize

  5 min 50 sec

• Steven Weinberg: Superstrings to cosmology

  5 min 28 sec

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