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Particle Physics Nobelist Steven Weinberg ’54 Dies at 88

By Anirudh Sharma | August 24, 2021

Steven Weinberg ’54, the theoretical physicist whose Nobel prize-winning work transformed scientists’ understanding of fundamental forces, died on July 23. He was 88.

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