- Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is a theoretical physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of electroweak unification. He is the author of the best-selling books The First Three Minutes (about the very early universe), and Dreams of a Final Theory (about the quest for a unified theory of physics.) QUESTION: Over the ...www.pbs.org/faithandreason/transcript/wein-body.html