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Article: NOBEL LAUREATE MELVIN SCHWARTZ DIES ON AUG. 28
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following press release:
Melvin Schwartz, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, died on August 28, in Twin Falls, Idaho, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. In 1962, Schwartz, with Leon Lederman and Jack Steinberger, at the time all of Columbia University, discovered the muon neutrino at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), the then brand-new accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The three researchers shared the 1988 Nobel Prize for this discovery.
Born in the Bronx on November 2, 1932, Schwartz attended the Bronx High School of Science, and went on to ...