Quotes by Jack Steinberger

About Jack Steinberger:

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger is a physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Jack Steinberger

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Jack Steinberger

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Jack Steinberger

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

Jack Steinberger

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

Jack Steinberger

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Jack Steinberger

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

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I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

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Author Bio

  • NameJack Steinberger
  • DescriptionSwiss physicist
  • BornMay 25, 1921
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Nobel Prize In Physics