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Silvan Samuel Schweber (born 1928 in Strasbourg) is an American theoretical physicist and science historian.
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In 1944 Schweber began to study chemistry at the City College of New York and in 1947 moved to the University of Pennsylvania as a physics major, where he studied with Walter Elsasser and Herbert Jehle. After obtaining his master's degree in 1949, he went to Princeton University, where he studied with David Bohm and Eugene Wigner. In 1952 he received his doctorate under Arthur Wightman.
After that, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Hans Bethe at Cornell University and in 1954 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. From 1955 he was a professor at the newly founded Brandeis University.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011 he was awarded the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics.