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Melvin Schwartz

American physicist

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New York, NY

Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

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Citations12,894Source-reported citations
h-index55Source-reported h-index
i10-index109Source-reported i10-index

Biography, research & contributions

Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

Nobel Prize in Physics (1988): for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino

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Full name
Melvin Schwartz
Born
1932-11-02
Died
2006-08-28
OpenAlex ID
https://openalex.org/A5109328652

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  • Physics

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    4. Factors predictive of outcome in severe lupus nephritis ↗2000 · American Journal of Kidney Diseases
      378OpenAlex citations
    5. Value of a Complete or Partial Remission in Severe Lupus Nephritis ↗2007 · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
      313OpenAlex citations

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    1. Value of a Complete or Partial Remission in Severe Lupus Nephritis ↗2007 · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    2. Factors predictive of outcome in severe lupus nephritis ↗2000 · American Journal of Kidney Diseases

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    Awards & honors

    • Nobel Prize in Physics (1988) — for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino

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