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Melvin Schwartz | |
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| Born | November 2, 1932 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | August 28, 2006 (aged 73) Twin Falls, Idaho, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Neutrinos |
| Spouse | Marilyn[1] |
| Children | 3[1] |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1988) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory Stanford University Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Jack Steinberger |
Melvin Schwartz (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) 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.[2]
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- ^ Samios, Nicholas P. (December 2006). "Obituary: Melvin Schwartz". Physics Today. 59 (12): 75–76. Bibcode:2006PhT....59l..75S. doi:10.1063/1.2435691.