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:
- CERN – Geneva, Switzerland
Jack Steinberger
Born: 1921-05-25 in Bad Kissingen, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921–2020)
Biography
Jack Steinberger 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.