- 1933: Born in New York City
- 1954: Receives bachelor's degree from Cornell University
- 1957: Receives PhD in physics from Princeton University
- 1957: Writes thesis titled The role of strong interactions in decay processes
- 1957: Becomes researcher at Columbia University
- 1959: Becomes researcher at University of California, Berkley
- 1966: Becomes lecturer at Harvard University
- 1967: Becomes visiting professor at MIT
- 1967: Proposes unification of electromagnetism and weak force
- 1970's: Proposes basis for the technicolor theory
- 1973: Becomes professor at Harvard University
- 1977: Publishes The First Three Minutes
- 1979: Proposes renormalization in quantum field theory
- 1979: Receives Nobel Prize in physics
- 1982: Begins teaching at the University of Texas at Austin
- 1995: Publishes The Quantum Theory of Fields
- 2015: Publishes To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
- 2021: Died at age 88 in Austin, Texas
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