George Zweig

George Zweig (* May 30, 1937 in Moscow) is an American physicist and neurobiologist who is one of the discoverers of the quarks.

Branch graduated in 1959 from the University of Michigan and then went to Caltech in Pasadena to Richard Feynman. He worked for several years at MIT and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and later ( 2004) at Renaissance Technologies on Long Iceland, New York, a company in financial services (owned by the mathematician James Simons).

Regardless of Murray Gell-Mann, he took 1964 to the existence of quarks, called this, however, as " aces " (Aces, after the playing cards ). He was about to have one of the first Erice Conferences before 1963, but never achieved the same recognition as Gell-Mann. In branch, however, can prove that he actually held the quarks for physically real, in Gell-Mann is controversial. Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize for his many contributions to the strong interactions, as the quark model, which was not explicitly mentioned by the Nobel Committee, was still in the testing stage - quarks were seen at that time, especially in high-energy scattering experiments, but at that time by Feynman referred to as partons ..

Branch later turned to neurobiology and studied the transduction of sound into nerve impulses in the cochlea of the human ear. He developed 1975, the continuous wavelet transform.

In 1981 he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1996.