George Zweig (born on May 30, 1937) was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. Notable for his contributions and discoveries to quark theory before it became the standard model of particle physics. He later turned his attention 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. 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.