Marcel Schein (June 9, 1902 – February 20, 1960) was a Slovak-born American physicist, best known for his work on cosmic rays.
Marcel Schein was born in Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary on June 9, 1902.
[1] He died in Chicago on February 20, 1960, and was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery.
[1] Schein studied at the universities of Vienna, Würzburg and Zurich, where he got his PhD with the best mark, magna cum laude.
In 1938, he emigrated to the United States where he joined the University of Chicago's Institute of Physics as staff researcher.