1. George Zweig is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin.
12 Facts About George Zweig
1. 2.
George Zweig was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.
3.
George Zweig introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model.
4.
George Zweig has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry.
5.
George Zweig graduated from the University of Michigan in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, having taken numerous physics courses as electives.
6.
George Zweig earned a PhD degree in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1964.
7.
George Zweig proposed the existence of quarks at CERN, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, shortly after defending his PhD dissertation.
8.
George Zweig dubbed them "aces", after the four playing cards, because he speculated there were four of them.
9.
Unlike Gell-Mann, George Zweig was partly led to his picture of the quark model by the peculiarly attenuated decays of the meson to, a feature codified by what is known as the OZI Rule, the "Z" in which stands for "George Zweig".
10.
George Zweig later turned to research on hearing and neurobiology, and studied the transduction of sound into nerve impulses in the cochlea of the human ear, and how the brain maps sound onto the spatial dimensions of the cerebral cortex.
11.
In 2003, George Zweig joined the quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, founded by the former Cold War code breaker James Simons.
12.
Once his four-year confidentiality agreement with Renaissance Technologies expired, the 78-year-old George Zweig returned to Wall Street and co-founded a quantitative hedge fund, called Signition, with two younger partners.