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Steinberger, Jack, 1921–, American physicist, b. Kissingen, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. He was a professor at Columbia Univ. from 1950 until 1971. In the early 1960s, Steinberger and co-researchers, Leon Lederman Lederman, Leon Max (lĕd`ərmən), 1922–, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1951.
..... Click the link for more information. and Melvin Schwartz Schwartz, Delmore, 1913–66, American poet, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ., 1935. He was an editor of the Partisan Review (1943–55). His first work, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, including the famous title story, appeared in 1938.
..... Click the link for more information. , discovered a new type of neutrino, which is a particle with no detectable electric charge or mass that moves at the speed of light. This led to the development of a new scheme for classifying families of subatomic particles. In 1988, the trio shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery.

Steinberger, Jack (1921– ) physicist; born in Bad Kissigen, Germany. He fled the Nazis with his brother and came to the U.S.A. in 1935. After performing research at Princeton (1948–49) and the University of California: Berkeley (1949–50), he joined Columbia University (1950–72). He, L. Lederman, and M. Schwartz shared the 1988 Nobel Prize for their 1960–62 accelerator-created beam of neutrinos and subsequent discovery that neutrinos exist in two types. Steinberger continued his subatomic particle research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (1968–86), then became a professor at the Scuola Normale, Pisa (1986).