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HistoryFigure1922–2018

Region: New York ; Fermilab (Batavia, Illinois)

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American physicist born in New York to Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa). Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 (with Schwartz and Steinberger) for the discovery of the muon neutrino (1962). Director of Fermilab and founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Author of the popular science book The God Particle (1993), at the origin of the nickname of the Higgs boson.

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