George Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology. He spent a number of years as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, but as of 2004, has gone on to work in the financial services industry. Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ... Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; in IPA) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics. ... Neuroscience is a field of study which deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and pathology of the nervous system. ... Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view from 1995. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...

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. For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. ... Murray Gell-Mann at Harvard University Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ... The word transduction has several meanings: In developmental psychology, transduction is reasoning from specific cases to specific cases, typically employed by children. ... A schematic representation of hearing. ...    Nerves redirects here. ... Cross section of the cochlea. ... Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu(extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ... An ear is an organ used by an animal to detect sound waves. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... In mathematics, the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is a wavelet transform defined by where represents translation, represents scale and is the mother wavelet. ...

In 1981, Zweig received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...