The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988
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Leon M. Lederman
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Melvin Schwartz
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Jack Steinberger
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 was awarded jointly to Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger "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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