Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger
Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinbergeris an American physicist who, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the muon neutrino...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth25 May 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Jack Steinberger quotes about
active continue duty japanese months released spent wonderful
I spent some months on active duty in the Army, but was released after the Japanese surrender, to continue my studies. It was a wonderful atmosphere.
education children school
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
students professors feels
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
states experimentation
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
ideas might generations
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
army special chicago
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
loyalty years oath
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
noses faces election
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
weekend evening chicago
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
hard-times engineering income
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
problem difficult scientific-knowledge
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.