New York University Stevens Institute of Technology
Known for
Neutrinos
Spouse
Sylvia Samuels (m. 1940; 2 children)
Awards
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1981)
National Medal of Science (1983)
Bruno Rossi Prize (1989)
Michelson-Morley Award (1990)
Panofsky Prize (1992)
Franklin Medal (1992)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1995)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Los Alamos Laboratory
Case Western Reserve University
University of California, Irvine
Thesis
Nuclear fission and the liquid drop model of the nucleus(1944)
Doctoral advisor
Richard D. Present
Doctoral students
Michael K. Moe (1965)
Frederick Reines (/ˈraɪnəs/RY-nəs;[1] March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) 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."[2]
A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University, Reines joined the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944, working in the Theoretical Division in Richard Feynman's group. He became a group leader there in 1946. He participated in a number of nuclear tests, culminating in his becoming the director of the Operation Greenhouse test series in the Pacific in 1951.
In the early 1950s, working in Hanford and Savannah River Sites, Reines and Cowan developed the equipment and procedures with which they first detected the supposedly undetectable neutrinos in June 1956. Reines dedicated the major part of his career to the study of the neutrino's properties and interactions, which work would influence study of the neutrino for many researchers to come. This included the detection of neutrinos created in the atmosphere by cosmic rays, and the 1987 detection of neutrinos emitted from Supernova SN1987A, which inaugurated the field of neutrino astronomy.
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FrederickReines (/ˈraɪnəs/ RY-nəs; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his...
co-discoverer of the neutrino along with FrederickReines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics...
and was discovered in 1956 by a team led by Clyde Cowan and FrederickReines (see Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment). In the early 1900s, theories predicted...
113. S2CID 260749625. Retrieved 23 July 2023. Frederick, Reines; Cowan, Clyde L. Jr. (1997). "The Reines-Cowan experiments: Detecting the poltergeist"...
community, as alumni or faculty, have been awarded the Nobel Prize: FrederickReines (class of 1939), in physics, and Irving Langmuir (Chemistry faculty...
Goertzel algorithm Alfred G. Mayer, marine biologist and zoologist FrederickReines, M.E. 1939, M.S. 1943, discoverer of the neutrino, recipient of the...
later built by EG&G, and the name "bhangmeter" was coined in 1950 by FrederickReines. Bhangmeters became standard instruments used to observe US nuclear...
conservation of parity in particle physics. Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment (1955): Clyde L. Cowan and FrederickReines confirm the existence of the neutrino. Hafele-Keating...
Reines as chair of the physics department based on Reines's work that first detected neutrinos emitted from a nuclear reactor—work for which Reines shared...
(lepton) Wolfgang Pauli (1930), named by Enrico Fermi Clyde Cowan, FrederickReines ( ν e, 1956) Solved the problem of energy spectrum of beta decay. quarks...
and 'for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics'" FrederickReines "'for the detection of the neutrino' and 'for pioneering experimental...
awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless. Two laureates have been awarded twice...
Nicholas P. Samios, Ralph P. Shutt [de] 1992: Raymond Davis, Jr. and FrederickReines 1991: Gerson Goldhaber and Francois Pierre [Wikidata] 1990: Michael...
Marjorie Blamey (died 2019), English botanical illustrator. March 16 – FrederickReines (died 1998), American physicist, Nobel laureate. April 4 – Joseph Ashbrook...
based on charring pointed to a yield of 13 to 14 kilotons. In 1953, FrederickReines calculated the yield as 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). Based on the Project...
March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989) March 16 – FrederickReines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) March 17 – Viviane...
Martin L. Perl New York City "for the discovery of the tau lepton" 1995 FrederickReines Paterson, New Jersey "for the detection of the neutrino" 1994 Clifford...
Awards. Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30. "FrederickReines". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014...
Graves, Elizabeth Riddle Graves, David L. Hill, Nicholas Metropolis, FrederickReines, and Raemer Schreiber. Over 80 percent of the scientists in the theoretical...
– John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934) 1998 – FrederickReines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) 2000 – Akbar Adibi...
decay. The neutrino was first confirmed experimentally in 1956 by FrederickReines and Clyde Cowan, two and a half years before Pauli's death. On receiving...
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