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Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties."
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Born 16 March 1918 · Died 26 August 1998 · Q191922
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“My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including Independence Day July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.”
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Died 1998-08-26.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the detection of the neutrino.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1995).
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Reines was honored, along with Martin L
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Won Franklin Medal (1992).
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Awarded Panofsky Prize (1992).
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But he continued teaching until 1991, and remained on UCI's faculty until his death
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Neutrinos emitted from Supernova SN1987A were detected by the Irvine–Michigan–Brookhaven (IMB) Collaboration, which used an 8,000 ton Cherenkov detector located in a salt mine near Cleveland
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Won National Medal of Science (1983).
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Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1981).
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The National Medal of Science in 1985, the Bruno Rossi Prize in 1989, the Michelson–Morley Award in 1990, the Panofsky Prize in 1992, and the Franklin Medal in 1992
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And a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1994
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And the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously
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Reines took most of his neutrino research team with him when he left for the new University of California, Irvine (UCI), becoming its first dean of physical sciences
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The new detector captured its first atmospheric neutrinos
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To teach at George Washington University, ending their collaboration
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Were able to send Pauli a telegram announcing that the neutrino had been found
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This time using one of the newer, larger 700 MW reactors at the Savannah River Site that emitted a high neutrino flux of 1
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Made their first attempts using one of the large reactors at the Hanford nuclear site in what is now known as the Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment; they named the experiment "Project Poltergeist"
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Was the director of Operation Greenhouse series of nuclear tests in the Pacific
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Reines and his colleague Clyde Cowan decided to see if they could detect neutrinos and so prove their existence
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Operation Sandstone at Eniwetok Atoll in 1948, and Operation Ranger and Operation Buster–Jangle at the Nevada Test Site
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Working in the Theoretical Division in Richard Feynman's group
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Richard Feynman recruited Reines to work in the Theoretical Division at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where he would remain for the next fifteen years
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Writing a thesis on "A Critical Review of Optical Diffraction Theory"
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Proposed his theory of beta decay by which the electrons emitted from the nucleus were created by the decay of a neutron into a proton, an electron, and a neutrino:
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Born 1918-03-16.
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