Jack Steinberger, pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 99

• Date: 18 December 2020
• Author: Gabe Friedman
• Published date: 18 December 2020
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Steinberger, born Hans Jakob Steinberger, was the son of a cantor for the small Jewish community in Bad Kissengen, a small town in Bavaria, Germany. His family immigrated to the U.S. in 1934 with the help of Jewish organizations, according to The New York Times.

Steinberger, who died last weekend at 99, studied and worked with some of the 20th century's leading physicists, such as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Throughout his career, he would decline to do research for weapon building.

In the 1950s and '60s, Steinberger worked with Melvin Schwartz and Leon Lederman to create a beam of neutrinos that significantly furthered the study of...