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Jack Steinberger

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

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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 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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Born
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Place of birth
Bad Kissingen wd
Died
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Place of death
Geneva wd
Citizenship
Germany, United States wd
Occupation
physicist, university teacher wd
Education
University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, New Trier High School wd

Awards wd

  • Guggenheim Fellowship (1956)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)
  • National Medal of Science (1988)
  • Matteucci Medal (1990)
  • honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • honorary doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal university (1995)

Questions

When was Jack Steinberger born?
Jack Steinberger was born on 25 May 1921 in Bad Kissingen.
Where did Jack Steinberger study?
Jack Steinberger was educated at University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, New Trier High School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Jack Steinberger · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q153210 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Jack-Steinberger-2008.JPG by Sigismund von Dobschütz (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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