The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to

Leon M. Lederman
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
Batavia, Illinois, USA

Melvin Schwartz
Digital Pathways Inc.,
Mountain View,
California, USA

Jack Steinberger
CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland

 

for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

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