George Zweig

George Zweig is a US particle physicist and neurobiologist. He is currently a Present Visiting Scientist at MIT.

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US - Particle physicist - Neurobiologist - MIT

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In 1964, Zweig proposed the existence of quarks 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.

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1964 - Quark - Murray Gell-Mann - Transduction - Sound - Nerve - Cochlea - Human - Ear - 1975 - Continuous wavelet transform

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In 1981, Zweig received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.

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1981 - MacArthur Prize Fellowship

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