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Encyclopedia > Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ...


He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon Max 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. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ...


He grew up in New York City in the Great Depression and went to the Bronx High School of Science. His interest in physics began there at the age of 12. The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. ... The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. ...


He did his undergraduate work at Columbia University, where Nobel Prize laureate Isidor I. Rabi was the head of the physics department. He provided the research setting for six Nobel Prize-winning projects during those 13 years, as well as hosting about a half dozen future laureates, either as students or as post-doctoral researchers. Schwartz stayed at Columbia for his graduate work and became an Assistant Professor there in 1958). Jack Steinberger was his mentor and friend. T. D. Lee inspired the experiment for which Schwartz received the Nobel Prize. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... U.S. government photo Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist who did work on high energy particle physics, symmetry principles, and statistical mechanics. ...


In 1966, after 17 years at Columbia, he moved west to Stanford University, where SLAC, a new accelerator, was just being completed. There, he was involved in research investigating the charge asymmetry in the decay of long-lived neutral kaons and another project which produced and detected relativistic hydrogen-like atoms made up of a pion and a muon. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a U.S. national laboratory operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy. ...


He became president of Digital Pathways in the 1970s, and he still holds that position. In addition, he became Associate Director, High Energy and Nuclear Physics, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1991. At the same time, he returned to the Columbia faculty as Professor of physics. He became I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics in 1994 and retired as Rabi Professor Emeritus in 2000. He has since moved to Idaho. Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ...


External links

  • 1988 Nobel Physics winners
  • Nobel autobiography

He has a son, and a Grand son Alex. Who resides in a rich suburb of Chicago. He currenty attends New Trier Highschool. Alex is kind of a really stupid person though. He always thinks he rights. Alex has never been laid.


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Melvin Schwartz Summary (2083 words)
Melvin Schwartz's research and experimentation in the weak force of the four fundamental forces of nature resulted in the proof of the existence of the neutrino, a particle of zero-rest mass, and the Nobel Prize-winning discovery and definition of the two existing types of neutrinos, the electron neutrino, and the muon neutrino.
Schwartz was born in New York City on November 2, 1932, to Harry and Hannah Shulman Schwartz.
Schwartz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, which awarded him the Hughes Prize in 1964.
Melvin Schwartz dies at 73; won Nobel Prize in physics - Health & Science - International Herald Tribune (832 words)
Schwartz suggested that neutrinos might be easier to study if it was possible to create a beam of them in a laboratory.
Schwartz oversaw the building of four detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, known as RHIC (and pronounced rick), that is currently running at Brookhaven.
Schwartz, who had left physics because groups of dozens of researchers were too large for his taste, was now managing collaborations of 300 to 400 scientists, Zajc said.
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