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Zweig, George 1937-
US physicist

Born in Moscow, he was educated at the University of Michigan and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and then worked at the CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Geneva (1963-64), before returning to Caltech, where he became professor in 1967. Independently of Murray Gell-Mann he developed the theory of quarks as the fundamental physical building blocks. They suggested that three types exist, although there are now believed to be six types of quark.