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The article author is Steven Weinberg:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/197...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".

The article is fantastically clear, with much less mystification than in ordinary physics popularization articles.




Weinberg has been writing for NYRB for a long time now. Several of his other articles are not behind the paywall:

http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/steven-weinberg-2/


Some good NYRB reviews by Freeman Dyson were collected into a book too, I'm sure some of his aren't paywalled:

http://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Rebel-York-Review-Books/dp/1...




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