Melvin Schwartz
- Born: November 2, 1932 (New York, New York)
- Died: August 28, 2006 (Twin Falls, Idaho)
Education
- 1953: AB, Columbia University
- 1958: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1956–1957: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Research Associate
- 1957–1958: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Physicist
- 1958–1960: Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1960–1963: Columbia University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1963–1966: Columbia University, Professor of Physics
- 1966–1983: Stanford University, Professor of Physics
- 1970–1991: Digital Pathways, Inc., President
- 1991–1994: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Director, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
- 1994–2000: Columbia University, I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics
- 2000–2006: Columbia University, Professor Emeritus of Physics
Selected Awards and Honors
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
N. P. Samios and P. Yamin, "Melvin Schwartz: 1932-2006", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Melvin Schwartz, "The Early History of High-Energy Neutrino Physics," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 411-427
