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Jack Steinberger

American Physicist

Born: May 25, 1921

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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. Jack Steinberger

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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. Jack Steinberger

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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. Jack Steinberger

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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. Jack Steinberger

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. Jack Steinberger

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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. Jack Steinberger

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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. Jack Steinberger

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