Jack Steinberger (1921- )

Awarded the Prize “for the neutrino beam method the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.”

American physicist. Steinberger was born in Bad Kissingen, Germany on May 25, 1921. He immigrated to the University States in 1934 studied physics at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1948. He was Professor of Physics at Columbia University, from 1968 he was a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. In 1986, he became Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.