Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. Wikipedia, Steven Weinberg
He predicted the Higgs boson — in 1967.
It wasn’t discovered until 2012.
Steven Weinberg didn’t just do physics — he saw the future of it.
He took two forces that looked totally different — light and radioactivity — and showed they were actually the same force, just hiding their unity behind a cosmic disguise. That idea? It became the Standard Model of particle physics.
Then he asked:
What if the laws of nature aren’t arbitrary?
What if they’re the only way the universe could possibly exist?
So he built physics back up from scratch — from symmetry, relativity, and quantum mechanics alone — and showed that all known forces are just the only solutions that can exist under those principles.
The man saw the mathematical skeleton of the universe.
And when reality caught up, it looked exactly like what he wrote down.
His classic “The First Three Minutes” taught a generation about the birth of the cosmos, and his passion reminded us that physics isn’t just about equations — it’s about beauty, clarity, and human wonder.
As he once wrote, "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."
The physicist who bent the universe to logic.
See Also