Jack Steinberger

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (25 May 1921 – 12 December 2020) was a German-born American physicist of Jewish descent. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz. He was given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. Steinberger now lives in Switzerland.
He studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.
Steinberger was an atheist, and a member of the International Academy of Humanism.
Steinberger died on 12 December 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 99.