Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz · Science & Medicine
Physicist; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
1932, New York City, United States — 2006, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States
United States
Melvin Schwartz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Schwartz helped devise the first high-energy neutrino beam and used it to discover the muon neutrino, proving that neutrinos come in distinct types; he shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon Lederman and Jack Steinberger. He taught at Columbia and Stanford and founded a computer data-security company. He was born into a Jewish family in New York during the Great Depression.
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Physicist; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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