Dr. Steven Weinberg's world is as wide as the heavens and as small as subatomic structure. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978. His book THE FIRST THREE MINUTES brought the theory of the Big Bang to a popular audience as he groped with the deepest question of all: Why is there something instead of nothing? Award(s) won: George Foster Peabody Award for the series A WORLD OF IDEAS with Bill Moyers aired in 1988 and 1990. The half-hour episodes featured scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, historians -- some well-known, many never before seen on television.
