The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 was awarded jointly to Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino".
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 99
Dr. Steinberger shared the prize in 1988 for expanding understanding of the neutrino, a staggeringly ubiquitous subatomic particle.
The physicist Jack Steinberger in 1963. He and two colleagues won a Nobel Prize in 1988 for work that the Nobel committee said “opened entirely new opportunities for research into the innermost structure and dynamics of matter.”Credit.Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
Published Dec. 16, 2020Updated Jan. 20, 2021
Jack Steinberger, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for expanding understanding of the ghostly neutrino, a staggeringly ubiquitous subatomic particle, died on Saturday at his home in Geneva. He was 99.