George Zweig
George Zweig · Science & Medicine
Physicist; independently proposed quarks (which he called 'aces')
1937, Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia)
Soviet Union · United States
George Zweig is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; independently proposed quarks (which he called 'aces')
Born in Moscow to a Jewish family that later emigrated to the United States, Zweig independently proposed in 1964 that hadrons are built from fundamental constituents he called 'aces' — the particles Murray Gell-Mann named quarks. Trained under Richard Feynman, he later turned to neurobiology and the study of how the ear processes sound. His quark model is one of the cornerstones of modern particle physics.
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Physicist; independently proposed quarks (which he called 'aces')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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