\"Nobel Prize Physics\" Jack Steinberger Signed 4X5.75 Color Photo COA for Sale

\"Nobel Prize Physics\" Jack Steinberger Signed 4X5.75 Color Photo COA For Sale

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\"Nobel Prize Physics\" Jack Steinberger Signed 4X5.75 Color Photo COA:
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Jack Steinberger(born May 25, 1921) is an Americanphysicistwho, along withLeon M. LedermanandMelvin Schwartz, received the 1988Nobel Prize in Physicsfor the discovery of themuon neutrino. Steinberger was born in the city ofBad KissingeninBavaria,Germany, in 1921. The rise ofNazismin Germany, with its openanti-Semitism, prompted his parents, Ludwig (a cantor and religious teacher) and Berta,to send him out of the country. Steinberger emigrated to theUnited Statesat the age of 13, making the trans-Atlantic trip with his brother Herbert. Jewish charities in the U.S. arranged for Barnett Farroll to care for him as a foster child. During this period, Steinberger attendedNew Trier Township High School, inWinnetka, Illinois. Steinberger studied chemical engineering at Armour Institute of Technology (nowIllinois Institute of Technology) but left after his scholarship ended to help supplement his family\'s income. He obtained a bachelor\'s degree in Chemistry from theUniversity of Chicago, in 1942. Shortly thereafter, he joined theSignal CorpsatMIT. With the help of theG.I. Bill, he returned to graduate studies at theUniversity of Chicagoin 1946, where he studied underEdward TellerandEnrico Fermi. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the energy spectrum of electrons emitted inmuondecayAfter receiving his doctorate, Steinberger attended theInstitute for Advanced StudyinPrincetonfor a year. In 1949 he published a calculation of the lifetime of the neutralpion,which anticipated the study of anomalies in quantum field theory. Following Princeton, Steinberger went to theRadiation Labat theUniversity of California at Berkeley, where he performed an experiment which demonstrated the production of neutral pions and their decay to photon pairs. This experiment utilized the 330 MeV synchrotron and the newly invented scintillation counters.Despite this and other achievements, he was asked to leave the Radiation Lab at Berkeley due to his refusal to sign the so-called non-Communist Oath. Steinberger accepted a faculty position at Columbia in 1950. The newly commissionedmesonbeam atNevis Labsprovided the tool for several important experiments. Measurements of the production cross section of pions on various nuclear targets showed that the pion has odd parity.A direct measurement of the production of pions on aliquid hydrogentarget, then not a common tool, provided the data needed to show that the pion has spin zero. The same target was used to observe the relatively rare decay of neutral pions to a photon, an electron, and apositron. A related experiment measured the mass difference between the charged and neutral pions based on the angular correlation between the neutral pions produced when the negative pion is captured by the proton in the hydrogen nucleus.Other important experiments studied the angular correlation between electron-positron pairs in neutral pion decays, and established the rare decay of a charged pion to an electron and neutrino; the latter required use of a liquid-hydrogenbubble chamber.