# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-zweig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:57:22.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-zweig"
name: "George Zweig"
slug: "george-zweig"
description: "George Zweig is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model. He later turned his attention to neurobiology. He has worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the financial services industry."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Zweig_(3x4_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3542364767831498
  historical:           20.81120133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump