Melvin Schwartz
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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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- 1932
- Died
- 2006-08-28
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- 11
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- 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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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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1932 births2006 deathsAmerican experimental physicistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican particle physicistsBrookhaven National Laboratory Nobel laureatesBrookhaven National Laboratory staffColumbia College, Columbia University alumniColumbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumniColumbia University facultyDeaths from hepatitis in the United States