Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)
Rohini M. Godbole, Urjit Yajnik: Steven Weinberg (1933 - 2021), Current Science 121 5 (10 Sep 2021) [arXiv:2302.02704]
Cliff P. Burgess, Fernando Quevedo: Steven Weinberg: A Scientific Life, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (2025) [arXiv:2502.10979]
Cliff P. Burgess: Reminiscences about Steven Weinberg (This Time it’s Personal) [arXiv:2504.01118]
(Re-)Introducing light-cone gauge quantization:
Introducing the electroweak symmetry breaking:
and personal recollection:
On gravity (general relativity) and cosmology:
Introducing quark-hadron duality:
On effective field theory and chiral perturbation theory:
Steven Weinberg, Phenomenological Lagrangians, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications Volume 96, Issues 1–2, April 1979, Pages 327-340 (doi:10.1016/0378-4371(79)90223-1)
Steven Weinberg, On the Development of Effective Field Theory (arXiv:2101.04241)
Deriving the soft graviton theorem:
On classification of possible long-range forces, hence of scattering processes of massless fields, by classification of suitably factorizing and decaying Poincaré-invariant S-matrices depending on particle spin, leading to uniqueness statements about Maxwell/photon-, Yang-Mills/gluon-, gravity/graviton- and supergravity/gravitino-interactions:
Steven Weinberg, Feynman Rules for Any Spin. 2. Massless Particles, Phys. Rev. 134 (1964) B882 (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.134.B882)
Steven Weinberg, Photons and Gravitons in -Matrix Theory: Derivation of Charge Conservationand Equality of Gravitational and Inertial Mass, Phys. Rev. 135 (1964) B1049 (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.135.B1049)
Steven Weinberg, Photons and Gravitons in Perturbation Theory: Derivation of Maxwell’s and Einstein’s Equations,” Phys. Rev. 138 (1965) B988 (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.138.B988)
Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol 1: Foundations, Cambridge University Press (1995) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781139644167]
Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol 2: Applications, Cambridge University Press (1996) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781139644174]
On supersymmetry:
Steven Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (2015) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781316276105]
Steven Weinberg: Scientist: Four golden lessons, Nature 426, 389 (27 November 2003) [doi:10.1038/426389a]
Steven Weinberg, Against philosophy, in: Dreams of a final theory [pdf]
On the early history of the standard model of particle physics:
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