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    Frederick Reines (/ˈraɪnəs/ RY-nəs; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his...
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    The Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment was conducted by physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines in 1956. The experiment confirmed the existence of neutrinos...
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    co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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  • and was discovered in 1956 by a team led by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines (see Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment). In the early 1900s, theories predicted...
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    original on 30 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023. Frederick, Reines; Cowan, Clyde L. Jr. (1997). "The Reines-Cowan experiments: Detecting the poltergeist"...
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    Reines stepped down as Dean in order to focus on his research and teaching as a professor. Their discovery of the neutrino eventually led to Reines and...
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    51.884. "The Reines-Cowan Experiments: Detecting the Poltergeist" (PDF). Los Alamos Science. 25: 3. 1997. Retrieved 2010-02-10. Reines, F.; Cowan, C...
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  • community, as alumni or faculty, have been awarded the Nobel Prize: Frederick Reines (class of 1939), in physics, and Irving Langmuir (Chemistry faculty...
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    pulse propulsion in 1946, and preliminary calculations were made by Frederick Reines and Ulam in a Los Alamos memorandum dated 1947. In August 1955, Ulam...
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  • later built by EG&G, and the name "bhangmeter" was coined in 1950 by Frederick Reines. Bhangmeters became standard instruments used to observe US nuclear...
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  • conservation of parity in particle physics. Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment (1955): Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines confirm the existence of the neutrino. Hafele-Keating...
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  • Reines as chair of the physics department based on Reines's work that first detected neutrinos emitted from a nuclear reactor—work for which Reines shared...
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    Chemistry and Frederick Reines won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Rowland helped to discover the harmful effects of CFCs on the ozone layer, while Reines received...
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    (lepton) Wolfgang Pauli (1930), named by Enrico Fermi Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines ( ν e, 1956) Solved the problem of energy spectrum of beta decay. quarks...
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    awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless. Two laureates have been awarded twice...
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  • Nicholas P. Samios, Ralph P. Shutt [de] 1992: Raymond Davis, Jr. and Frederick Reines 1991: Gerson Goldhaber and Francois Pierre [Wikidata] 1990: Michael...
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    Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1979 – Abraham Pais 1980 – Richard H. Dalitz 1981 – Frederick Reines 1982 – Maurice Goldhaber and Robert E. Marshak 1983 – Victor F. Weisskopf...
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  • Marjorie Blamey (died 2019), English botanical illustrator. March 16 – Frederick Reines (died 1998), American physicist, Nobel laureate. April 4 – Joseph Ashbrook...
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    discovered. Martin Lewis Perl shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frederick Reines. The latter was awarded his share of the prize for the experimental...
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    based on charring pointed to a yield of 13 to 14 kilotons. In 1953, Frederick Reines calculated the yield as 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). Based on the Project...
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  • ultimately, the quark model of hadron composition. 1956 Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines discovered the (electron) neutrino; 1956 Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Lee...
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  • E. Nichol, American politician from Nebraska (d. 2006) March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) March 17 – Viviane...
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  • defibrillator (William B. Kouwenhoven), laser (Gordon Gould), atom bomb (Frederick Reines), polio vaccine (Albert Sabin), RFID (Mario Cardullo), telephone handset...
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  • – John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934) 1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) 2000 – Akbar Adibi...
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    and "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" Frederick Reines (1918–1998) "for the detection of the neutrino" and "for pioneering...
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    decay. The neutrino was first confirmed experimentally in 1956 by Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan, two and a half years before Pauli's death. On receiving...
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  • arise spontaneously from inorganic ones. 1955 – Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines confirm the existence of the neutrino in the neutrino experiment. 1958...
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  • – Yury Artyukhin (b. 1930), Soviet Russian cosmonaut. August 26 – Frederick Reines (b. 1918), American physicist, Nobel laureate. October 10 – Konstantin...
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  • 1995 Robert Lucas Jr., Economics, 1995 Martin L. Perl, Physics, 1995 Frederick Reines, Physics, 1995 Edward B. Lewis, Physiology or Medicine, 1995 Eric F...
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    Captain (later Rear Admiral); Robert Oppenheimer's second in command. Frederick Reines, theoretical physicist, awarded 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics Bruno Rossi...
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