Erick Weinberg
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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. 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.
Weinberg was educated at Manhattan College (BA 1968)
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
who has spent most of his career at the Department of Physics in Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. He obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1973. His advisor was Sidney Coleman
Sidney Coleman
Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann.- Life and work :Sidney Coleman grew up on the Far North Side of Chicago...
with whom he discovered the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism for radiative spontaneous symmetry breaking
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is the process by which a system described in a theoretically symmetrical way ends up in an apparently asymmetric state....
. He has also worked in black holes, vortices
Vortex
A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent,flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex...
, Chern-Simons theory
Chern-Simons theory
The Chern–Simons theory is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type, introduced by Edward Witten. It is so named because its action is proportional to the integral of the Chern–Simons 3-form....
, magnetic monopoles in gauge theories and cosmic inflation
Cosmic inflation
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation or just inflation is the theorized extremely rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 1078 in volume, driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density. The inflationary epoch comprises the first part...
. He is an editor of Physical Review D.
Weinberg was educated at Manhattan College (BA 1968)