The neutrino
In 1930 the Austrian, Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize 1945) suggested a new type of particle, the neutrino. Many of those who heard of the new particle received the news with a certain scepticism.
A few years later, Enrico Fermi, Italy (Nobel Prize 1938) developed the theory for the weak force. Fermi called Pauli’s particle the small, neutral particle – the neutrino.
In 1956 Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan, USA, performed an experiment demonstrating the existence of the neutrino.
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