Melvin Schwartz receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 1988.

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Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1988.

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Melvin Schwartz at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 1988.

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Melvin Schwartz during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1988.

Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström

Physics laureates Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger and Leon M. Lederman, chemistry laureates Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel and Johann Deisenhofer during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1988.

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The 1988 laureates assembled at the Swedish Academy, 1988. Back row from left: medicine laureate George H. Hitchings, chemistry laureate Johann Deisenhofer, medicine laureate Sir James W. Black, physics laureate Jack Steinberger, chemistry laureate Robert Huber, physics laureate Melvin Schwartz, chemistry laureate Hartmut Michel and physics laureate Leon M. Lederman. Seated are from left: laureate in economic sciences Maurice Allais, medicine laureate Gertrude B. Elion and Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz, daughter of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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Melvin Schwartz in front of the spark chamber used to conduct his Nobel Prize awarded research.

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Nobel Laureates in Physics assembled at Brookhaven National Laboratory in August 1996 (left to right): 1957 Laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, 1988 Laureates Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, and 1976 Laureate Samuel Ting.

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