Jack Steinberger
- Born: May 25, 1921 (Bad Kissingen, Germany)
Education
- 1942: BS, University of Chicago
- 1948: PhD, University of Chicago
Major Positions
- 1948–1949: Institute for Advanced Study, Member
- 1949–1950: University of California, Berkeley, Research Assistant
- 1950–1952: Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1952–1955: Columbia University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1955–1964: Columbia University, Professor of Physics
- 1964–1971: Columbia University, Professor of Physics
- 1968–1986: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Physicist
Other Positions
- 1942–1944: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Researcher
- 1945–1945: United States Army, Soldier
- 1969–1971: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Director, Experimental Physics
- 1986–present: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Visiting Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1988: National Medal of Science
- 1988: Nobel Prize in Physics
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Jack Steinberger, Learning About Particles: Fifty Privileged Years (2005, New York: Springer)
Jack Steinberger, "A Particular View of Particle Physics in the Fifties," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 307-330
