Jack Steinberger

Who is this?

Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921 – December 12, 2020) 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.

Career

1. 1921
   Born
2. 1956
   Won Guggenheim Fellowship
3. 1968
   Member of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
4. 1988
   Won Nobel Prize in Physics
5. 1988
   Won National Medal of Science
6. 1990
   Won Matteucci Medal
7. 1997
   Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
8. 2020
   Passed away
9. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
10. Won honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Bad Kissingen
• •Citizenship: Germany, United States
• •Known as: physicist, university teacher