Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines receiving their Nobel Prizes from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 1995.

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Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines after receiving their Nobel Prizes from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 1995.

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Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines showing their Nobel Prize medals after the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 1995.

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All 1995 Nobel Prize 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.

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1995 Nobel Prize laureates assembled during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1995. Back row: Chemistry laureate Paul J. Crutzen, economic sciences laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr, medicine laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, chemistry laureate Mario J. Molina and medicine laureate Edward B. Lewis. Front row: medicine laureate Eric F. Wieschaus, physics laureates Frederick Reines and Martin L. Perl and chemistry laureate F. Sherwood Rowland.

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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.

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