George Zweig

George Zweig (/zwaɪɡ/; born May 30, 1937) is a Russian-American physicist. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman.^[1] He is known for his works with Murray Gell-Mann especially when they created the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his works to neurobiology.

George Zweig
George Zweig giving a speech at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
Born	(1937-05-20) May 20, 1937 (age 88) Moscow, Russian SFSR
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology
Known for	Quark model
Awards	Sakurai Prize (2015), MacArthur Fellowship 1981, NAS 1996
Scientific career
Fields	physics; neurobiology
Institutions	LANL, MIT
Doctoral advisor	Richard Feynman

He has worked as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, and in the financial services industry.