Jack Steinberger
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Jack Steinberger was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in particle physics during the 20th century. His contributions to understanding the fundamental particles and forces of nature helped advance our knowledge of how the universe works at its most basic level.
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- 1921-05-25
- Died
- 2020-12-12
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- Learning about particles - 50 privileged years
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- CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute — Self2010
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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 discovery of the muon neutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University (1950–68), and the CERN (1968–86). He was also a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990.
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1921 births2020 deathsAmerican AtheistsAmerican humanistsAmerican Nobel laureatesBrookhaven National Laboratory Nobel laureatesBrookhaven National Laboratory staffColumbia University facultyEmigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesExperimental physicistsGerman atheistsIllinois Institute of Technology alumni