잭 스타인버거

소개

한스 야코프 "잭" 스타인버거(Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger, 1921년 5월 25일 ~ 2020년 12월 12일)는 스위스의 물리학자이다. 그는 리언 레더먼, 멜빈 슈워츠와 함께 뮤온 중성미자를 공동으로 발견하였으며, 이에 대한 공로로 1988년 노벨 물리학상을 받았다.

Jack Steinberger 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.