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Melvin Schwartz
Born (1932-11-02)November 2, 1932
Died August 28, 2006(2006-08-28) (aged 73)
Nationality American
Alma mater Columbia University
Known for neutrinos
Spouse(s) Marilyn (3 children)
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)
Scientific career
Fields Particle physics
Institutions Brookhaven National Laboratory
Stanford University
Columbia University

Melvin Schwartz (November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist of Jewish descent.

He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

Schwartz died on August 28, 2006 in Twin Falls, Idaho from Parkinson's disease and hepatitis C, aged 73.

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