Frederick Reines

Physicist, Academic

1918 – 1998

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Who was Frederick Reines?

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, and 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
Mar 16, 1918
Paterson
Also known as
  • Райнес, Фредерик
  • 弗雷德里克·莱因斯
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, New York University
    Theoretical physics
    ( - 1944)
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
Employment
  • University of California, Irvine
  • Case Western Reserve University
Lived in
  • Paterson
  • Orange
    (1966 - 1998/08/26)
Died
Aug 26, 1998
Orange

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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