Erick Weinberg

Erick J. Weinberg ( born August 29, 1947 in Ossining, New York) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum field theory and elementary particle physics.

Weinberg was educated at Manhattan College (Bachelor 1968) and received his PhD in 1973 at Sidney Coleman at Harvard University ( master's degree, 1969). After that, he was from 1973 to 1975 at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1975 he was assistant professor and in 1987 professor of physics at Columbia University.

He examined, inter alia, spontaneous symmetry breaking with quantum fluctuations ( Coleman -Weinberg mechanism ) and solitons, both in quantum field theory. Next he dealt with cosmology ( Magnetic monopoles in the early universe, cosmological phase transitions, inflationary cosmology ) and black holes.

He is one of the editors of Physical Review D.

Writings

• Classical solutions in Quantum Field Theory: Solitons and Instantons in High Energy Physics, Cambridge Monographs in Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press 2012