Jack Steinberger

Physicist, Academic

1921 –

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Who is Jack Steinberger?

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger is a physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Born
May 25, 1921
Bad Kissingen
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Germans
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Chicago
    Physics
    ( - 1948)
  • New Trier High School
    ( - 1938)
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
    Chemical Engineering
    (1938 - 1941)
  • Institute for Advanced Study
Lived in
  • Bavaria
  • Geneva
    (1968 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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