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Article: AMERICANS WIN NOBEL FOR PHYSICS BREAK 5-YEAR EUROPEAN DOMINANCE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 19, 1988
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Byline: Rolf Soderlind United Press International
Americans Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger won the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in elementary particle physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today.
Lederman, 66, is director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago, while Schwartz, 55, is president of his own firm specializing in computer communications in Mountain View, Calif. Steinberger, 67, a longtime U.S. citizen born in West Germany, is a senior physicist in Geneva, Switzerland.
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel of West Germany won the Nobel Prize in ...