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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...

(Image: CERN) Jack Steinberger, a giant of the field who contributed so much to the experimental development of the Standard Model, passed away on 12 December 2020 aged 99. Born in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen in 1921, he left Germany at the age of 13 to escape rising antisemitism and settled in the United States. After receiving a degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, he turned his attention to physics, working at the MIT radiation laboratory through the war years before returning to Chicago to embark on a career in theoretical physics. Under the guidance of En...

Jack Steinberger, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 99 Martin Weil Jack Steinberger, a German-born physicist who came to the United States as a boy to escape the Nazis and went on to win the Nobel Prize for his work with neutrinos, one of the most elusive and mysterious of all the elementary constituents of matter, died Dec. 12 in Geneva. He was 99. Family members confirmed his death but did not provide an immediate cause. An American citizen whose prizewinning work had been conducted at Columbia University in New York and the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Is...