George Zweig

George Zweig
George Zweig giving a speech at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
Born	(1937-05-20) May 20, 1937 (age 87) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan California Institute of Technology
Known for	Quark model
Awards	Sakurai Prize (2015) MacArthur Fellowship (1981) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics; neurobiology
Institutions	Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Richard Feynman

George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.^[1] He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his attention to neurobiology. He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.