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Melvin Schwartz and the Discovery of the Muon NeutrinoResources with Additional Information ![]() Courtesy Brookhaven National Laboratory Melvin Schwartz was the co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino". 'In 1962, Schwartz, with Leon Lederman and Jack Steinberger … 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. … First coming to Brookhaven in 1955, Schwartz performed his Ph.D. thesis research through 1956 at the Laboratory's first accelerator, the Cosmotron. While finishing his thesis, he was employed by the Laboratory from 1956-58. Returning to Columbia University, Schwartz continued to do research at Brookhaven, working at the AGS from 1958-63. After relocating to Stanford University in 1966, he maintained his research ties with Brookhaven. In 1970, Schwartz founded a major computer-security company, Digital Pathways, Inc., in Mountain View, California. Later, Nicholas Samios, former Brookhaven Lab Director and currently head of the BNL-RIKEN Research Center, encouraged Schwartz to return to physics. He did so in 1991, returning to Brookhaven Lab as Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics. … Melvin Schwartz was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He received the Hughes Prize from the APS in 1964.'1 1 Edited excerpt Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin … Co-Discovered the Muon Neutrino at Brookhaven Lab in 1962 Resources with Additional InformationAdditional information about Melvin Schwartz and the discovery of the muon neutrino is available in electronic documents and on the Web. Documents:The Parity of the Neutral Pion and the Decay pi{sup 0} Yields 2e{sup +} + 2e{sup -}, DOE Technical Report, January 1962 Observation of High-Energy Neutrino Reactions and the Existence of Two Kinds of Neutrinos; Physical Review Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 1; July 1962 Intensity of Upward Muon Flux Due to Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos Produced in the Atmosphere, DOE Technical Report, June 1963 Search for Massive Particles Produced in Interactions at 30 BeV, DOE Technical Report, January 1965 The First High-energy Neutrino Experiment; Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 61, Issue 3; July 1989 Additional Web Pages:Discovery of the Muon-Neutrino Current Comments - The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics … Nobel Laureate Named I. I. Rabi Prof. of Physics, Columbia University
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