Erick Weinberg is a theoretical physicist who has spent most of his career at the Department of Physics in Columbia University. He obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1973.[1] His advisor was Sidney Coleman with whom he discovered the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism for radiative spontaneous symmetry breaking. He has also worked in black holes, vortices, Chern-Simons theory, magnetic monopoles in gauge theories and cosmic inflation. He is an editor of Physical Review D.[2]
Weinberg was educated at Manhattan College (BA 1968) <from the German Wikipedia>