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Melvin Schwartz
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Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist who conducted experimental research in the mid-to-late 20th century. He is notable for his contributions to particle physics during a period when understanding the fundamental nature of matter was a major scientific priority.
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melvin
- Family name
- Schwartz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Twin Falls
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Jack Steinberger
- Field of work
- classical electromagnetism
- Image
- Melvin Schwartz.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1932-11-02
- date of death
- 2006-08-28
- medical condition
- Parkinson's disease
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- member of
- American Physical Society
- Erdős number
- 7
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Melvin Schwartz
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- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Melvin Schwartz (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
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