Jack Steinberger#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1144 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Jack Steinberger passed away December 12, 2020.
Positions Held
- 1968 - 1986 Researcher, CERN, now retired at CERN
- 1950 - 1968, Faculty, Columbia University, USA
- 1949 - 1950 Assistant to Gian Carlo Wick, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 1948 - 1949 Member, Inst. Of Adv. Study, Princeton, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Properties of elementary particles
- Contributions in theory, but mostly experimental
Honours and Awards
- Honorary doctorats: Dortmund, Glassgow, Clermont-Ferand, Columbia
- 1988 Nobel Prize (jointly to Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz)" for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino".
- Mateuzzi Medal of the Italian Physical Society
