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Frederick Reines

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Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 to August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan. He joined the Manhattan Project Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944, and in the early 1950s he and Cowan developed the equipment and procedures with which they first detected the neutrino in June 1956. Reines later worked on the 1987 detection of neutrinos from Supernova SN1987A, which helped open the field of neutrino astronomy.

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Birth Year
1918 1
Birth Date
1918-03-16 1
Death Date
1998-08-26 1
Death Year
1998 1
Field
Physics 1
Death Place
Orange, California 1
Nationality
American 1
Notable Work
Co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan; 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics 1
Birthplace
Paterson, New Jersey 1
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1. Frederick Reines (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: Born
    Born March 16, 1918, Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
  • Infobox: Died
    Died August 26, 1998, Orange, California, U.S.
  • Lead section, second sentence
    He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment.
  • Lead section, first sentence
    Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918, August 26, 1998) was an American physicist.
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