caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place awards image_size nationality ethnicity fields workplaces doctoral_students birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
sam bard treiman -lrb- 1925 -- 1999 -rrb- enrico fermi john alexander simpson 30 november 1999 new york , usa chicago , usa oersted medal -lrb- 1985 -rrb- 300px american russian-lithuanian physicist princeton university curtis carl albright kenneth edwards young suh kim john bronzan binayak callan dutta-roy paul b. kantor alfred goldhaber jonathan rosner porter johnson stephen rein uritam herbert chen stephen schutz kazuo fujikawa glennys farrar l. william shanahan bennie ward robert schrock evelyn monsay david yevick adler cornell chun dean preston michael ramsey-musolf nicola khuri steven weinberg 27 may 1925 goldberger-treiman relation callan-treiman relation united states sam treiman
 sam treiman northwestern university university of chicago
sam treiman

sam bard treiman -lrb- may 27 , 1925 -- november 30 , 1999 -rrb- was an american theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of cosmic rays , quantum physics , plasma physics and gravity physics .
he made major contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics .
he was a professor of physics at princeton university , a member of the national academy of sciences and member of the jason defense advisory group .
he was a student of enrico fermi and john alexander simpson jr. .
treiman published numerous articles on quantum mechanics , plasmas , gravity theory , condensed matter and the history of physics .
