What is Melvin Schwartz?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Melvin Schwartz |image = |image_size = Melvin Schwartz |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|11|2}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|8|28|1932|11|2}} |death_place = [[Twin Falls, Idaho]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States|American]] |ethnicity = |fields = [[Particle physics]] |workplaces = [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]]<br>[[Stanford University]]<br>[[Columbia University]] |alma_mater = [[Columbia University]] |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = [[neutrino]]s |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1988) |religion = |signature = <!--(filename only)--> |footnotes = |spouse=Marilyn (3 children)<ref>http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/schwartz-melvin.pdf</ref> }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Melvin Schwartz''' (November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]] of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1988/schwartz-autobio.html|title=Nobelprize.org/physics|publisher=}}</ref> 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 [[lepton]]s through the discovery of the [[muon]] neutrino.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Samios, Nicholas P.|title=Obituary: Melvin Schwartz|journal=Physics Today|date=December 2006|volume=59|issue=12|pages=75–76|url=http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/59/12/10.1063/1.2435691|doi=10.1063/1.2435691}}</ref> Schwartz died on August 28, 2006 in [[Twin Falls, Idaho]] fro