Steven Weinberg

1979 winner, Nobel Prize in Physics

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Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the National Medal of Science; author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

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