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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Steinberger has received more than 311,942 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Jack Steinberger is the 304th most popular physicist (down from 266th in 2019), the 1,233rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,090th in 2019) and the 46th 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

Among physicists, Jack Steinberger ranks 304 out of 851. Before him are John Tyndall, George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, and Giorgio Parisi. After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, David Gross, Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Moshé Feldenkrais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jack Steinberger ranks 73. Before him are Paul Watzlawick, Gérard Debreu, Karel Appel, Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, and Thomas Schelling. After him are Robert Bruce Merrifield, Lydia Litvyak, Paul Schäfer, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Chris Marker, and Yuri Nikulin. Among people deceased in 2020, Jack Steinberger ranks 68. Before him are Mario J. Molina, John Saxon, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Pranab Mukherjee, Freeman Dyson, and Stirling Moss. After him are Ulay, Amadou Toumani Touré, Clive Cussler, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Preston, and Kang Kek Iew.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jack Steinberger ranks 1,233 out of 7,253. Before him are Leo von Klenze (1784), Carl Schuhmann (1869), Georg von Hertling (1843), Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851), Otto of Bamberg (1060), and Thea von Harbou (1888). After him are Hans Reichenbach (1891), Adolph Wagner (1835), Robert Koldewey (1855), Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874), Konrad Witz (1400), and Ulay (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jack Steinberger ranks 46. Before him are August Kundt (1839), Carl von Linde (1842), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), and Pascual Jordan (1902). After him are Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), and Heinrich Geißler (1814).

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