Jack Steinberger

Also known as J. Steinberger

German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)

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Jack Steinberger was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in particle physics during the 20th century. His contributions to understanding the fundamental particles and forces of nature helped advance our knowledge of how the universe works at its most basic level.

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Learning about particles - 50 privileged years

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CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute — Self2010

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Switzerland
Active from: 1933-01-06

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Wahre Lügengeschichten1999
Eine Kabarettistische Lesung2005

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A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
· 1982 · cited 18,578x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,380x
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 13,382x
The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,270x
APACHE II
· 1985 · cited 13,181x

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Quotes

“You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.”
“The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. … I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.”
“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

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Commons category: Jack Steinberger
date of birth: 1921-05-25
Erdős number: 5
birth name: Hans Jakob Steinberger
date of death: 2020-12-12
name in native language: Jack Steinberger
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Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921 – December 12, 2020) 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.

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