Nima Arkani-Hamed

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How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists

By Nima Arkani-Hamed

August 11, 2021

When Steven Weinberg died last month, the world lost one of its most profound thinkers.

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Nima Arkani-Hamed is a theorist with wide interests in fundamental physics, from particle physics and cosmology to quantum field theory, string theory and collider physics. He was educated at Toronto, Berkeley and SLAC, and was a professor at Berkeley and Harvard before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in 2008.

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