Nobel Laureate Melvin Schwartz Dies, August 28
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Melvin Schwartz, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, died on August 28, in Twin Falls, Idaho, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. In 1962, Schwartz, with Leon Lederman and Jack Steinberger, at the time all of Columbia University, discovered the muon neutrino at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the then brand-new accelerator at Brookhaven. The three researchers shared the 1988 Nobel Prize for this discovery.