Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009

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Series V: Nobel Prize



Box 3 1988 Nobel Prize medal in Physics awarded to Melvin Schwartz in a red leather case with M. Schwartz gold tooled on front cover of the case


Box 3 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics diploma in a MS monogrammed blue leather cover with a MS monogrammed clamshell box


Box 3 Official letter from the Nobel Prize Committee announcing the award for the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics to Melvin Schwartz, Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger, 26 October 1988



Box 1 Folder 22 Photocopy of handwritten proposal nominating t'Hooft and Veltman for Nobel Prize

(Unknown author--not Mel Schwartz. Also contains Val Telegdi's nomination of Veltman for National Academy of Sciences, but I do not think the handwriting on the Nobel nomination matches that of Telegdi)


Box 1 Folder 61 Annual Report of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , 31 March 1989



Box 2 Folder 1 Red folder containing material from 1988 Nobel Prize, 1991 Jubilee Nobel Ceremony, 1999 Centennial Nobel Prize, and Lindau Meetings



Box 1 Folder 53 Preliminary Draft of essay for publication in Current Contents: "The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics: Melvin Schwartz, Leon Lederman, Jack Steinberger, and the Story of Two Neutrinos." By Eugene Garfield. FAX paper.