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Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger 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 Universi…
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science · German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921–2020) · physicist · university teacher · also Jack Steinberger, J. Steinberger, Steinberger
Born 25 May 1921 · Died 12 December 2020 · Q153210
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2020· 4 entries
“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”
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“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.”
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“You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.”
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2006· 1 entry
Steinberger was made honorary citizen of Bad Kissingen
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2001· 1 entry
The school he had attended there was named Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium in 2001.
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal university (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1990).
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1988· 7 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Won National Medal of Science (1988).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1988).
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"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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And the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990
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By the then US president, Ronald Reagan and was the recipient of the Matteucci Medal in 1990, from the Italian Academy of Sciences
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Proved the existence of a type of neutrino associated with the muon, distinct from the neutrino produced in beta decay
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1986· 1 entry
And went on to become a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy
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1968· 1 entry
Steinberger left Columbia University and accepted a position as a department director at CERN
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1961· 1 entry
To neutrinos produced in association with muons in the decays of charged pions and kaons
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1956).
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Used a 30 cm chamber outfitted with three cameras to discover the neutral Sigma hyperon and measure its mass
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1950· 1 entry
Due to his refusal to sign the so-called non-Communist Oath
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1949· 2 entries
Steinberger went to the Radiation Lab at the University of California at Berkeley, where he performed an experiment which demonstrated the production of neutral pions and their decay to photon pairs
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Published a calculation of the lifetime of the neutral pion, which anticipated the study of anomalies in quantum field theory
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1946· 1 entry
Where he studied under Edward Teller and Enrico Fermi
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-05-25.
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