Renaissance Technologies, founded by the former Cold War code breaker James Simons. He left the firm in 2010. Once his four-year confidentiality agreement with Renaissance Technologies expired, the 78-year-old Zweig returned to Wall Street and co-founded a quantitative hedge fund, called Signition, with two younger partners. They began trading in 2015. Awards and honors MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981) National Academy of Sciences (1996) Sakurai Prize (2015) References MacArthur Fellows 21st-century American physicists American neuroscientists Particle physicists People associated with CERN Jewish American scientists American people of Russian-Jewish descent 1937 births Living people Soviet Jews Scientists from Moscow Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel Jewish physicists Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients 21st-century American Jews