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Dates

May 20, 1937 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Zweig, George

Abstract

George Zweig is a Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1985-present). Other institutional affiliations include California Institute of Technology. His research interests include the reaction at high energies k leptonic decay and partially conserved currents and continuous wavelet transform.

Important Dates

May 20, 1937Birth, Moscow (Russia).

1959Obtained BS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Mich.).

1963Obtained PhD in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).

1963 – 1964National Research Council (NRC) Fellow, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

1964 – 1983Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).

1967 – 1968Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1981Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

1981 – presentStaff Member (1981-1985) and Fellow (1985-present), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alam

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CERN Accelerating science

"Art is not merely an imitation of nature. Art is about creation. Art is creating the world. For the Arts, Nature is a nebula and the true challenge is to create its stars."

G.Seferis, 1926

Earlier this autumn, George Zweig, father of Aces, visited CERN to give a Colloquium titled "Concrete Quarks; the Beginning of the End". An enigmatic title, like Aces, of which there are four in a deck of cards, but only three in the CERN Reports Zweig introduced early in 1964, while working as a visitor in the Theory Group at CERN. More on this below.

Following his work in the field of high energy particle physics, work that eventually led to the quark-parton model, Zweig moved to a totally different field, neurobiology, first doing experiments to understand how sound is represented in the auditory cortex of cat, and then retreating to the more manageable problem of characterizing cochlear mechanics He wanted to work in a field where ``how to think was not understood". George Zweig seems to represent the ideal of the Renaissance Man; afte

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George Zweig

I am trying to discover how the information in sound is coded in the cochlea for analysis by the central nervous system. The mechanical structure of the cochlea contributes to the coding process by providing a distributed, energy-producing, nonlinear medium in which traveling waves compete for amplification and neural representation. I have used Mossbauer measurements of transverse wave velocity to deduce the partial differential equation governing wave propagation and predicted the characteristics of sound that appear in the ear canal when traveling waves are reflected from random mechanical inhomogeneities in the cochlea. By recording the sound produced in the ear canal by the cochlea in response to tones, I was able to verify those predictions. Currently I am investigating how measurements of such otoacoustic emissions can be used to determine noninvasively the mechanical state of the cochlea. My interest in cochlear mechanics stems in part from the possibility of abstracting principles of signal processing from an understanding of its operation. I develope