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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

"for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"
Leon M. Lederman Melvin Schwartz Jack Steinberger
Leon M. Lederman Melvin Schwartz Jack Steinberger
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, IL, USA		 Digital Pathways, Inc.
Mountain View, CA, USA		 CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
b. 1922 b. 1932
d. 2006		 b. 1921
(in Bad Kissingen, Germany)
 

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