Awards & Winners

Jack Steinberger

Date of Birth 25-May-1921
Place of Birth Bad Kissingen
(Germany, Bavaria)
Nationality United States of America, Germany, Switzerland
Profession Physicist
Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger is a physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Awards by Jack Steinberger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jack Steinberger.

1988


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)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his incisive illumination of the properties of subnuclear particles, including exhaustive measurements of strange particles, neutral kaons, and high energy neutrino interactions.)