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Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; November 2,

1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. Melvin Schwartz
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.[2]
Biography
He was Jewish.[3] 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.
He earned his B.A. (1953) and Ph.D. (1958) at Born November 2, 1932
Columbia University, where Nobel laureate Isidor New York City, U.S.
Isaac Rabi was the head of the physics department.
Died August 28, 2006 (aged 73)
Schwartz became an assistant professor at Columbia in
Twin Falls, Idaho, U.S.
1958. He was promoted to associate professor in 1960
and full professor in 1963. Tsung-Dao Lee, a Columbia Education Columbia University (BA,
colleague who had recently won the Nobel prize at age PhD)
30, inspired the experiment for which Schwartz Known for Neutrinos
received his Nobel. Schwartz and his colleagues Spouse Marilyn[1]
performed the experiments which led to their Nobel
Children 3[1]
Prize in the early 1960s, when all three were on the
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics
Columbia faculty. The experiment was carried out at
(1988)
the nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Scientific career
In 1966, after 17 years at Columbia, he moved west to Fields Particle physics
Stanford University, where SLAC, a new accelerator,
Institutions Brookhaven National
was just being completed. There, he was involved in
Laboratory
research investigating the charge asymmetry in the
Stanford University
decay of long-lived neutral kaons and another project
Columbia University
which produced and detected relativistic hydrogen-like
atoms made up of a pion and a muon. Doctoral Jack Steinberger
advisor
In the 1970s he founded and became president of
Digital Pathways. In 1972 he published a textbook on classical electrodynamics that has become a
standard reference for intermediate and advanced students for its particularly clear exposition of the basic
physical principles of the theory.[4] In 1991, he became Associate Director of High Energy and Nuclear
Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At the same time, he rejoined 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 spent his retirement years in Ketchum, Idaho, and died August 28, 2006, at a Twin
Falls, Idaho, nursing home after struggling with Parkinson's disease and hepatitis C.[5]
Awards and honors

The Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1989)[6]
Publications
Samios, N. P., Plano, R., Prodell, A., Schwartz, M. and J. Steinberger. "The Parity of the
Neutral Pion and the Decay pi{sup 0} Yields 2e{sup +} + 2e{sup -}" (https://www.osti.gov/bibl
io/4818749-parity-neutral-pion-decay-pi-sup-yields-sup-sup), Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory,
Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the
Atomic Energy Commission), Office of Naval Research, (January 1962).
Lee, T. D., Robinson, H., Schwartz, M. and R. Cool. "Intensity of Upward Muon Flux Due to
Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos Produced in the Atmosphere" (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4685861-in
tensity-upward-muon-flux-due-cosmic-ray-neutrinos-produced-atmosphere), Nevis
Cyclotron Laboratory, Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through
predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (June 1963).
Franzini, P., Leontic, B., Rahm, D., Samios, N. and M. Schwartz. "Search for Massive
Particles Produced in Interactions at 30 BeV" (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4648783-search-m
assive-particles-produced-interactions-bev), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia
University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic
Energy Commission), (January 1965).
G. Danby, J.-M. Gaillard, K. Goulianos, L.M. Lederman, N.B.Mistry, M. Schwartz, J.
Steinberger (1962). "Observation of high-energy neutrino reactions and the existence of two
kinds of neutrinos." (https://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~yorks/pro13/PhysRevLett.9.36.pdf)
Physical Review Letters 9:36
See also
List of Jewish Nobel laureates
References
1. Samios, N. P.; Yamin, P. "Melvin Schwartz" (http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographi
cal-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/schwartz-melvin.pdf) (PDF). National Academy of Sciences.
Retrieved 3 November 2023.
2. Samios, Nicholas P. (December 2006). "Obituary: Melvin Schwartz" (https://doi.org/10.106
3%2F1.2435691). Physics Today. 59 (12): 75–76. Bibcode:2006PhT....59l..75S (https://ui.ad
sabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006PhT....59l..75S). doi:10.1063/1.2435691 (https://doi.org/10.106
3%2F1.2435691).
3. "Melvin Schwartz" (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/melvin-schwartz).
4. Schwartz, Melvin (1972). Principles of Electrodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
5. Kenneth Chang (August 30, 2006). "Melvin Schwartz Dies at 73; Won Nobel Prize in
Physics" (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/obituaries/30schwartz.html). New York
Times. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
6. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement" (https://achievement.or
g/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration). www.achievement.org. American
Academy of Achievement.
External links
1988 Nobel Physics winners (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1988/summary/)
Melvin Schwartz (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/133) on Nobelprize.org including the
Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1988 The First High Energy Neutrino Experiment
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