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Melvin Schwartz

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Melvin Schwartz

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American experimental physicist (1932-2006)

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Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist who conducted experimental research in the mid-to-late 20th century. He is notable for his contributions to particle physics during a period when understanding the fundamental nature of matter was a major scientific priority.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1932
Works
11

Top works

  • Propane bubble chamber study of the reaction [rho] + p [sigma] + K At 1.3 Bev
  • Exploring Latin America
  • Exploring the non-western world
  • Exploring a Changing World
  • Exploring the Western world

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE
Active from
1981-07-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
7

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1)

    · 2009 · cited 25,055x

  2. Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    · 2008 · cited 11,226x

  3. Dilemmas in a general theory of planning

    · 1973 · cited 11,105x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,989x

  5. Kinetics of Phase Change. I General Theory

    · 1939 · cited 10,590x

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Quotes

  • “The beauty of physics lies in the extent to which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1988

    “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Melvin
Family name
Schwartz
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Twin Falls
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Columbia University
Employer
Columbia University
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Jack Steinberger
Field of work
classical electromagnetism
Image
Melvin Schwartz.jpg
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date of birth
1932-11-02
date of death
2006-08-28
medical condition
Parkinson's disease
cause of death
Parkinson's disease
member of
American Physical Society
Erdős number
7
manner of death
natural causes
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language
Melvin Schwartz
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Melvin Schwartz (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

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