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10 quotes by Jack Steinberger

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) 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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children... →

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

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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

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