22 Facts About Jack Steinberger

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Jack Steinberger 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.

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Jack Steinberger was a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990.

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Jack Steinberger emigrated to the United States at the age of 13, making the trans-Atlantic trip with his brother Herbert.

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Jack Steinberger attended New Trier Township High School, in Winnetka, Illinois.

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Jack Steinberger was reunited with his parents and younger brother in 1938.

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Jack Steinberger studied chemical engineering at Armour Institute of Technology but left after his scholarship ended to help supplement his family's income.

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Jack Steinberger obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, in 1942.

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Jack Steinberger accepted a faculty position at Columbia University in 1950.

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Jack Steinberger recognized that the phenomenological parameter epsilon which quantifies the degree of CP violation could be measured in interference phenomena.

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Back in the United States, Jack Steinberger conducted an experiment at Brookhaven to observe CP violation in the semi-leptonic decays of neutral kaons.

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In 1968, Jack Steinberger left Columbia University and accepted a position as a department director at CERN.

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Jack Steinberger constructed an experiment there utilizing multi-wire proportional chambers, recently invented by Georges Charpak.

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Jack Steinberger retired from CERN in 1986, and went on to become a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy.

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Jack Steinberger continued his association with the CERN laboratory through his visits into his 90s.

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Jack Steinberger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino".

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Jack Steinberger shared the prize with Leon M Lederman and Melvin Schwartz; at the time of the research, all three experimenters were at Columbia University.

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Jack Steinberger gave his Nobel medal to New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, of which he was an alumnus.

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Jack Steinberger was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1988, by the then US president, Ronald Reagan and was the recipient of the Matteucci Medal in 1990, from the Italian Academy of Sciences.

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Jack Steinberger had four children, two from each of his marriages.

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Jack Steinberger's son Ned Steinberger is the founder of the eponymous company for headless guitars and basses, and his daughter Julia Steinberger is an ecological economist at the University of Lausanne.

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In 2006 Jack Steinberger was made honorary citizen of Bad Kissingen.

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Jack Steinberger died on December 12,2020, at his home in Geneva.