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. Credits and references for the poster »