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

Jack Steinberger

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Jack Steinberger
Age: 99 †
Born: 1921
Born: May 25
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Physicist
University Teacher
Kissingen
Hans Jakob Steinberger
J. Steinberger
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Berkeley
Oath
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Survived
Loyalty
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