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Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921 – December 12, 2020) was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the ...
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. Steinberger immigrated to the United States in 1934.
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Dec 16, 2020 · Steinberger co-discovered the muon neutrino and made other groundbreaking contributions to experimental physics. He was inspired by Enrico Fermi and other UChicago mentors and worked at CERN for five decades.
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Dec 23, 2020 · A tribute to the particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for discovering two types of neutrinos. Learn about his life, career, achievements and legacy in this comprehensive article.
- Christine Sutton
- 2021
Dec 16, 2020 · Jack Steinberger, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for expanding understanding of the ghostly neutrino, a staggeringly ubiquitous subatomic particle, died on Saturday at his home in Geneva.
Dec 12, 2020 · Jack Steinberger, Leon Lederman, and Melvin Schwartz managed to create a beam of neutrinos using a high-energy accelerator. In 1962, they discovered that, in some cases, instead of producing an electron, a muon (200 times heavier than an electron) was produced, proving the existence of a new type of neutrino, the muon neutrino.
Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger was born on 25 May 1921, to Jewish parents in Bad Kissingen (Bavaria, Germany). After the Nazi party came to power in 1933, Steinberger’s parents decided to send him to the USA in order to escape the anti-Semitic politics in Germany. Supported by a US businessman, Steinberger pursued scientific studies in Chicago.
