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Jack Steinberger

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Jack Steinberger

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Also known as J. Steinberger

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

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Jack Steinberger was a male physicist and university teacher born Hans Jakob Steinberger on May 25, 1921, in Bad Kissingen. He held citizenship in Germany, the United States, and Switzerland. Steinberger was educated at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology. His professional career included positions at Columbia University, CERN, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was an atheist and spoke German and English.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Medal of Science, and the Matteucci Medal. Steinberger was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Europaea. His doctoral student was Melvin Schwartz. He had a child named Julia K. Steinberger. Jack Steinberger died on December 12, 2020, in Geneva.

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  • CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute — Self2010

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1988

    “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Jack
Gender
male
Citizenship
Switzerland
Place of birth
Bad Kissingen
Place of death
Geneva
Child
Julia K. Steinberger
Occupation
university teacher
Employer
Columbia University
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
German
Religion
atheism
Doctoral advisor
Edward Teller
Doctoral student
Melvin Schwartz
Field of work
physics
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Jack-Steinberger-2008.JPG
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Jack Steinberger
date of birth
1921-05-25
member of
National Academy of Sciences
Erdős number
5
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
birth name
Hans Jakob Steinberger
date of death
2020-12-12
name in native language
Jack Steinberger
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interested in
physics
municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
Geneva
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Encyclopedic overview

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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