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George Zweig
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George Zweig (born 1937 in Russia into a jewish family ) was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology. He spent a number of years as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, but as of 2004, has gone on to work in the financial services industry.
A 1959 graduate of the University of Michigan, Zweig proposed the existence of quarks while a graduate student in Physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1964 (independently of Murray Gell-Mann). Zweig referred to them as "aces" after the four playing cards, because he speculated there were four of them. Zweig later turned to neurobiology, and studied the transduction of sound into nerve impulses in the cochlea of the human ear. In 1975, while studying the ear, he discovered the continuous wavelet transform.
In 1981, Zweig received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
In 1996, Zweig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Zweig now works for Renaissance Technologies on Long Island, NY.
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