Physicist Steven Weinberg was born #OTD in 1933. His 1967 paper "A Model of Leptons" presented a unified theory of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear interactions, and is the most cited paper in particle physics.
Besides his groundbreaking work in particle physics, Weinberg is known for contributions to cosmology and astrophysics, as well as numerous textbooks and popular works.
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