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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics to
   
  Leon M. Lederman
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
Batavia, Illinois, USA		 Melvin Schwartz
Digital Pathways Inc.,
Mountain View,
California, USA		 Jack Steinberger
CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland		  
 

for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

 

  

Contents:
Introduction  »
The hunt for the muon neutrino  »
The neutrino »
The weak force »
The four forces »
Leptons and quarks »
Further Reading  »
Based on materials from the 1988 Nobel Poster for Physics.
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