Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger
Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinbergeris an American physicist who, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the muon neutrino...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth25 May 1921
CountryUnited States of America
army special chicago
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.
active continue duty japanese months released spent wonderful
I spent some months on active duty in the Army, but was released after the Japanese surrender, to continue my studies. It was a wonderful atmosphere.
problem difficult scientific-knowledge
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.
hard-times engineering income
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.
weekend evening chicago
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
atheism lasts doe
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
noses faces election
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
new-york children home
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.
loyalty years oath
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
ideas might generations
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
states experimentation
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
students professors feels
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
thinking people progress
The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.
education children school
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.