Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1932-11-02 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physicist

Biography

Melvin Schwartz 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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

Awarded on: 1988-10-19

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

Affiliations:

  • Digital Pathways, Inc.Mountain View, CA, USA