Jack Steinberger
Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Born
May 25th, 1921
104 years ago
Died
2020
5 years ago — 99 years old
Category
Scientists & Innovators
Country
Switzerland
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Contributed significantly to particle physics as an academic and researcher. Played a key role in the discovery of the muon neutrino in experiments conducted at CERN. His work on weak interactions in particle physics has been highly influential in the field. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, sharing the honor with two other physicists for contributions to the understanding of the structure of matter.
Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988
Contributed to the discovery of the muon neutrino
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