Jack Steinberger

Physicist, born in Bad Kissigen, SC Germany. He fled to the USA in 1935, and studied at Chicago. After carrying out research at Princeton and Berkeley, California, he joined Columbia University (1950–72). He later worked at CERN, Geneva (1968–86), then became a professor at the Scuola Normale, Pisa. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz for their work creating beams of neutrinos via accelerators (1960–2) and their subsequent discovery of a second type of neutrino linked to the muon.

Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist.

Steinberger was born in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany, but left at the age of 13, due to the increasing anti-Semitism of the rising Nazi party. He moved to the United States, where he lived for many years, before moving to Switzerland to work at CERN.