Erick Weinberg

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>

References

  1. ^ Faculty biography at Columbia
  2. ^ Phys Rev D staff listing

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