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Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger | |
|---|---|
 Jack Steinberger | |
| Born | Hans Jakob Steinberger 25 May 1921 |
| Died | 12 December 2020 (aged 99) |
| Nationality | Germany-United States-Switzerland |
| Known for | Discovery of the muon neutrino |
| Spouse | Cynthia Alff |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Columbia University CERN |
| Academic advisors | Edward Teller Enrico Fermi |
| Notable students | Eric L. Schwartz |
Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (25 May 1921 – 12 December 2020) was a German-born American physicist of Jewish descent.[1] He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz. He was given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.[2] Steinberger now lives in Switzerland.
He studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991.[3]
Steinberger was an atheist, and a member of the International Academy of Humanism.[4]
Steinberger died on 12 December 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 99.[5]
- ↑ "www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics". Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ↑ J. Steinberger (1949). "On the use of subtraction fields and the lifetimes of some types of meson decay". Physical Review. 76 (8): 1180. Bibcode:1949PhRv...76.1180S. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.76.1180. Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
- ↑ "Jack Steinberger". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
- ↑ "www.secularhumanism.org". Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ↑ "Physik-Nobelpreisträger Jack Steinberger ist gestorben". inFranken.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-15.
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