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Biographical. I was born in Bad Kissingen (Franconia) in 1921. At that time my father, Ludwig, was 45 years old. He was one of twelve children of a rural ‘Viehhändler’ (small-time cattle dealer). Since the age of eighteen he had been cantor and religious teacher for the little Jewish community, a job he still held when he emigrated in 1938.
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May 21, 2024 · Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921, Bad Kissingen, Germany—died December 12, 2020, Geneva, Switzerland) was a German-born American physicist who, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint discoveries concerning neutrinos.
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Dec 23, 2020 · 23 December 2020. Jack Steinberger (1921–2020) Particle physicist who shared Nobel for discovering muon neutrinos. By. Christine Sutton. Credit: Sophia Elizabeth Bennett/CERN. When particle...
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Jack Steinberger. (Physicist) Jack Steinberger was a physicist who co-discovered the muon neutrino along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, a discovery which earned the trio the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born as a Jew in Germany, he received a very simple upbringing as the country was still reeling under the post-war depression.
Dec 18, 2020 · Jack Steinberger, a giant of the field who contributed so much to the experimental development of the Standard Model, passed away on 12 December 2020 aged 99. Born in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen in 1921, he left Germany at the age of 13 to escape rising antisemitism and settled in the United States. After receiving a degree in chemistry ...
Dec 16, 2020 · Jack Steinberger, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose distinguished career in experimental physics began as a University of Chicago student, died Dec. 12 at the age of 99. Steinberger, SB’42, PhD’49, was most famous for his co-discovery of a new type of ghostlike particle called the muon neutrino—a breakthrough that earned him, Leon ...
December 23, 2020. When particle physicist Jack Steinberger began his career in 1945, scientists knew about only a handful of subatomic particles. Today, dozens are evident, and their basic building blocks are codified in the standard model of particle physics.
