Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006
Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009.
Papers of Nobel Prize winning physicist and Columbia Professor Melvin Schwartz. Includes papers written by Schwartz on various topics related to physics, some notebooks of his studies at Columbia, materials related to his 1988 Nobel Prize ceremony, a few letters received by Schwartz, and a number of journal articles sent to him by colleagues. Included in the collection is his 1988 Nobel Prize medal in Physics in a red leather case with M. Schwartz gold tooled on front cover of the case; the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics diploma in a MS monogrammed blue leather cover with a MS monogrammed clamshell box; Official letter from the Nobel Prize Committee dated 1988/10/26 announcing the award for the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics to Melvin Schwartz, Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger; and a watercolor by Sven Ljunberg.
Melvin Schwartz obtained his B.A. (1953) and Ph.D (1958) from Columbia University. Schwartz was research scientist at Brookhaven from 1956-1958. In 1958, he became an assistant professor at Columbia, in 1960 an associate professor and in 1963 a full professor. Schwartz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with his Columbia colleagues Jack Steinberger and Leon Lederman.
Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Nobel Prizes
Painting.
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