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Melvin Schwartz

1932 - 2006

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Melvin Schwartz ( SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melvin Schwartz is the 219th most popular physicist (down from 169th in 2019), the 822nd most popular biography from United States (down from 615th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Physicist.

Melvin Schwartz is most famous for his work on the neutrino. He was the co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Melvin Schwartz ranks 219 out of 851. Before him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, and Robert H. Goddard. After him are Roy J. Glauber, Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, and Makoto Kobayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Melvin Schwartz ranks 35. Before him are Benigno Aquino Jr., Gerhard Richter, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Víctor Jara, and Khaled al-Asaad. After him are Camilo Cienfuegos, Carlos Saura, Ellen Burstyn, Michel Legrand, Frances E. Allen, and Abdul Halim Khaddam. Among people deceased in 2006, Melvin Schwartz ranks 26. Before him are Johannes Rau, Heinrich Harrer, Oriana Fallaci, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, and Anna Politkovskaya. After him are Lennart Meri, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Jack Palance, Muriel Spark, Clay Regazzoni, and Robert Altman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melvin Schwartz ranks 822 out of 20,380. Before him are Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Telly Savalas (1922), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Duke Ellington (1899), and Robert Johnson (1911). After him are Brandon Lee (1965), Willis Carrier (1876), Anastacia (1968), Alfred Hershey (1908), Joe DiMaggio (1914), and Danny Glover (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Melvin Schwartz ranks 44. Before him are Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Steven Weinberg (1933), and Robert H. Goddard (1882). After him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Michio Kaku (1947), Frederick Reines (1918), Robert Hofstadter (1915), and Arthur Ashkin (1922).

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