Book contents
- Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
- Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface: The Twentieth Century
- Publisher’s Note
- 1 First Things
- 2 Turning to Science
- 3 Cornell
- 4 Copenhagen
- 5 Princeton
- 6 Manhattan
- 7 San Francisco and Berkeley
- 8 East to London
- 9 Berkeley
- 10 Cambridge: 1966–69
- 11 Cambridge: 1969–72
- 12 Cambridge: 1972–79
- 13 Gone to Texas
- 14 Super Collider Days
- 15 Austin: The 1980s
- 16 The Dark Energy
- 17 Austin: The 1990s
- Image Credits
- Bibliography
- Index
17 - Austin: The 1990s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
Book contents
- Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
- Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface: The Twentieth Century
- Publisher’s Note
- 1 First Things
- 2 Turning to Science
- 3 Cornell
- 4 Copenhagen
- 5 Princeton
- 6 Manhattan
- 7 San Francisco and Berkeley
- 8 East to London
- 9 Berkeley
- 10 Cambridge: 1966–69
- 11 Cambridge: 1969–72
- 12 Cambridge: 1972–79
- 13 Gone to Texas
- 14 Super Collider Days
- 15 Austin: The 1980s
- 16 The Dark Energy
- 17 Austin: The 1990s
- Image Credits
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the summer of 1991, Weinberg receives the National Medal of Science from President George H. W. Bush. He describes various visits and internationl trips. Through the early 1990s at the University of Texas at Austin, he taught a course on the quantum theory of fields, which was published as a two-volume treatise on “The Quantum Theory of Fields.” (A third volume on supersymmetry would follow in 2000.) Around this time, he begins publishing popular science in The New York Review of Books. He gives the dedicatory address at the opening of the university’s Hobby–Eberly Telescope.
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- Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics , pp. 237 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024