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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
1/3 of the prize
1/3 of the prize
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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