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Jack Steinberger

1921 - 2020

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Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921 – December 12, 2020) was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muon neutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University (1950–68), and the CERN (1968–86). He was also a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Steinberger is the 268th most popular physicist (up from 305th in 2019), the 863rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Physicist.

Jack Steinberger is most famous for his work with particle physics. He discovered the muon neutrino in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988.

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Among physicists, Jack Steinberger ranks 268 out of 851. Before him are Toshihide Maskawa, Carlo Rubbia, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, and Johannes Rydberg. After him are Yang Chen-Ning, David J. Wineland, Pierre Agostini, Gerard 't Hooft, John C. Mather, and Masatoshi Koshiba.

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Among people born in 1921, Jack Steinberger ranks 55. Before him are Kenneth Arrow, James Jones, Abdul Salam Arif, Sugar Ray Robinson, Gérard Debreu, and Yitzhak Navon. After him are Telmo Zarra, Zdeněk Miler, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Harald Quandt, Nexhmije Hoxha, and Dobrica Ćosić. Among people deceased in 2020, Jack Steinberger ranks 47. Before him are Dmitry Yazov, Michael Lonsdale, Luis Sepúlveda, Jiří Menzel, Bill Gates Sr., and Qasem Soleimani. After him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Nexhmije Hoxha, Oliver E. Williamson, Christopher Tolkien, and George Steiner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jack Steinberger ranks 863 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Max Beckmann (1884), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823). After him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Theodor Billroth (1829), Emmy Göring (1893), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jack Steinberger ranks 38. Before him are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Wolfgang Paul (1913), and Klaus Fuchs (1911). After him are Carl von Linde (1842), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Friedrich Hund (1896), Rainer Weiss (1932), and Christoph Scheiner (1575).

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