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Melvin Schwartz

American experimental physicist (1932-2006) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 73

Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. 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.

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Awards

Nobel Prize in Physics1988
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society
John Jay Award

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1932 to 2006 · aged 73