Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006

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Melvin Schwartz 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. He was a professor at Columbia andStanford University. In 1991, he became Associate Director of High Energy and Nuclear Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He rejoined the Columbia faculty as the I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics in 1994.
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Birth 1932-11-02

Death 2006-08-28

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