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| Melvin Schwartz | |
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| Born | November 2, 1932 New York City, New York |
| Died | August 28, 2006 (aged 73) Twin Falls, Idaho |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory Stanford University Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Known for | neutrinos |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1988) |
Melvin Schwartz (November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist of Jewish descent.[1]
He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.[2]
Schwartz died on August 28, 2006 in Twin Falls, Idaho from Parkinson's disease and hepatitis C, aged 73.
References
- ↑ "Nobelprize.org/physics". http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1988/schwartz-autobio.html.
- ↑ Samios, Nicholas P. (December 2006). "Obituary: Melvin Schwartz". Physics Today 59 (12): 75–76. . http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/59/12/10.1063/1.2435691.
Books
- Samios, N. P., Plano, R., Prodell, A., Schwartz, M. and J. Steinberger. "The Parity of the Neutral Pion and the Decay pi{sup 0} Yields 2e{sup +} + 2e{sup -}", Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory, Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), Office of Naval Research, (January 1962).
- Lee, T. D., Robinson, H., Schwartz, M. and R. Cool. "Intensity of Upward Muon Flux Due to Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos Produced in the Atmosphere", Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory, Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (June 1963).
Other websites
- Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- 1988 Nobel Physics winners
- Nobel autobiography
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