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Article: 3 Americans' Particle Research Wins Nobel
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- The Washington Post
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- October 20, 1988
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Three Americans were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics
yesterday for experiments that harnessed the ghostly neutrino
particle for research and helped physicists draw up the current
family tree of elementary particles.
Physicists Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger
shared the $400,000 prize for work that was conceived at Columbia
University and carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long
Island in 1962.
Lederman, 66, is currently the director of the Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago.
Schwartz, 55, runs a computer communications company called
Digital Pathways in Mountain View, Calif.
Steinberger, 67, works at the European particle ...