Physics Nobel Prize to Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger

Twenty‐six years after they demonstrated that neutrinos come in more than one flavor, Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger have been awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for this seminal experiment. Not only did it provide a fundamental piece of information essential to the development of the now “standard” model of the elementary particles; it also introduced the basic technique for the experimental study of the weak interactions at high energies. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded them jointly the $390 000 prize “for the neutrinobeam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.”