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Article: GERMAN CHEMISTS AND US PHYSICISTS GET NOBEL PRIZES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 20, 1988
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Nobel Prizes were awarded yesterday to three American
physicists whose work has led to a better understanding of the
basic building blocks of the universe and to three German chemists
who solved one of the basic mysteries of life: how the sun's energy
is harnessed by living cells.
The three Americans, Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and
Jack Steinberger, won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on
particle physics in the early 1960s. The work included the
discovery of one type of neutrino, a very elusive subatomic
particle.
That discovery, according to others in the field, profoundly
affected scientists' understanding of the way the fundamental
building blocks of the universe ...