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  2. Apr 9, 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. Jack Steinberger 1921-2020. By Dan Garisto. Jack Steinberger, a creative experimentalist who tackled a swathe of open questions in particle physics—from pion spin to strangeness to CP violation—died December 12 at the age of 99. He was best known, though, for research on neutrinos.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Jan 11, 2021 · Mon 11 Jan 2021 12.58 EST. Jack Steinberger, who has died aged 99, was one of the three winners of the Nobel prize for physics in 1988 for their work with neutrinos and the discovery of the...