Joseph Weinberg

Joseph Woodrow Weinberg (January 19, 1917 – October 22, 2002) was an American physicist. After the Second World War Weinberg was accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, and was later charged with perjury, but was acquitted. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at Syracuse University.

Biography Joseph Woodrow Weinberg was born January 19, 1917, in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. During World War II Weinberg worked at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory as part of the secret Manhattan Project, developing the atomic bomb. In 1951 Weinberg was fired from the University of Minnesota on the recommendation of university president James Morrill.

Weinberg briefly worked for the American Institute of Physics on the journal Physical Review. In 1963 he won the Gravity Research Foundation award.