(through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (October 1, 1950). Steinberger, J. "Experimental Survey of Strange Particle Decays", Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (June 1964). Personal life Steinberger's first marriage to Joan Beauregard ended in a divorce, after which he married his former student, biologist Cynthia Alff. He had four children, two from each of his marriages. His son Ned Steinberger is the founder of the eponymous company for headless guitars and basses, and his daughter Julia Steinberger is an ecological economist at the University of Lausanne. As an atheist and a humanist, Steinberger was a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism. In his own words, he is noted to have enjoyed tennis, mountaineering and sailing. In the 1980s Steinberger resumed relations with his native town Bad Kissingen. He often visited Bad Kissingen after that. The school he had attended there was named Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium in 2001. In 2006 Steinberger was made honorary citizen of Bad Kissingen. "I feel welcome in Bad Kissingen. This is my hometown and I was raised there. I feel as a German again now" he told the Bavarian broadcasting company Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2013. He died on December 12, 2020, at his home in Geneva. He was aged 99. See also List of Jewish Nobel laureates References External links including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1988 Experiments with High-Energy Neutrino Beams Jack Steinberger at CERN Jack Steinberger at Biographical Memorial Book of the Jews of Bad Kissingen 1921 births 2020 deaths Nobel laureates in Physics American Nobel laureates People associated with CERN People from Bad Kissingen German atheists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Experimental physicists Jewish American scientists Jewish humanists Jewish physicists Swiss physicists Jewish American atheists American humanists Columbia University faculty National Medal of Science laureates Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars New Trier High School alumni University of Chicago alumni Brookhaven National Laboratory Nobel laureates Particle physicists Recipients of the Matteucci Medal