I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
Jack Steinberger Quotes
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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| Birth: | 25th May, 1921 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Physicist |
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Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger was born in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany. He is a German-born American physicist who, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the muon neutrino. In 1988, he received the National Medal Of Science. He earned a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1942. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948. He served as a professor at Columbia University from 1950-1968. from 1968 he was a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of book, Learning About Particles - 50 Privileged Years.
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