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  1. 1933- . US physicist, who in 1967
  2. demonstrated, together with Abdus Salam, that
  3. the weak nuclear force and the
  4. electromagnetic force are variations of a
  5. single underlying force, now called the
  6. electroweak force. Weinberg and Salam shared
  7. a Nobel prize with Sheldon Glashow in 1979.
  8. Weinerg and Salam's theory involved the
  9. prediction of a new interaction, the neutral
  10. current (discovered in 1973), which required
  11. the presence of charm (see quark).
  12.