In Memoriam: Jack Steinberger, 99 | US Department of Energy Science News
Partner in Nobel Prize-winning Discovery of Muon Neutrino at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Jack Steinberger, who with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1962 discovery of the muon neutrino, died on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at his home in Geneva. He was 99. "Jack Steinberger was a remarkable man who played a key role in one of the most impactful discoveries in particle physics of the 20th century," said Doon Gibbs, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laborator...
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