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George Zweig

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George Zweig (; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his attention to neurobiology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Zweig is the 510th most popular physicist (up from 521st in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,248th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Zweig ranks 510 out of 851. Before him are Gaspard de Prony, Giovanni Aldini, Pierre Victor Auger, Dmitri Ivanenko, Frederick Guthrie, and Nicola Cabibbo. After him are Jeremiah P. Ostriker, G. M. B. Dobson, Lester Germer, Yakir Aharonov, Ivan Puluj, and Louis-François-Clement Breguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, George Zweig ranks 221. Before him are Barbara Babcock, Hiroshi Ninomiya, Ron Carter, Nur Hassan Hussein, David Mumford, and Eduard Artemyev. After him are Barbara Steele, Loretta Swit, Robert Ressler, Joe Viterelli, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, and Tomas Venclova.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 1,107 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Airat Ichmouratov (1973), Svetlana Medvedeva (1965), Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), and Eduard Artemyev (1937). After him are Orest Kiprensky (1782), Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Semyon Bychkov (1952), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Savely Kramarov (1934), and Yegor Ligachyov (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 26. Before him are Boris Podolsky (1896), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891). After him are Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Yuri Orlov (1924), George Volkoff (1914), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), and Boris Rosing (1869).

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