biography
pronunciation:
[stiynberger]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| 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. |
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