Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg, celebrated scientific mind, dies, 88
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and astronomer Prof. Steven Weinberg passed away Friday at the age of 88, according to a statement from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).
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