NOBEL IN THE FIELD OF NEUTRINOS
The discovery of the muon neutrino earned Leon Lederman, Mel Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988. According to the Nobel Prize news release: “The work that has now been recognized was completed in the 1960s. It led to breakthroughs that opened up whole new avenues for research into matter’s underlying structure and motion. The prize-winning work removes two major roadblocks to further research into weak forces, one of nature’s four basic forces.”