Frederick Reines
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All 1995 Nobel Laureates on stage for the Nobel Prize award ceremony. From left: Physics Laureates Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines; Chemistry Laureates Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland; Medicine Laureates Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus; Literature Laureate Seamus Heaney and Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert E. Lucas Jr.
Photo from the Lars Åström archive
Telegramme sent on June 14 1956 from physicists Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the detection, for the first time, of neutrinos. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 was awarded to Reines for this discovery.
Photo: © 2006-2022 CERN. CERN PhotoLab / Life at CERN. Photograph: Maximiliem Brice.
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