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Particle and nuclear

Steven Weinberg: probably the greatest theorist of his age

21 Aug 2021 Matin Durrani

Matin Durrani recalls his brushes with the Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who died on 23 July 2021 at the age of 88.

Photo of Steven Weinberg at the 2016 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston, US
A passion for physics: Steven Weinberg at the 2016 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore, US. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani/IOP Publishing)
For reasons I can no longer quite remember, I was once invited to CERN to interview the Nobel-prize-

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