When was Frederick Reines born?

Frederick Reines was born on 16 March 1918 in Paterson.

Where did Frederick Reines study?

Frederick Reines was educated at New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Union Hill High School.

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Frederick Reines

American physicist (1918–1998)

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Frederick Reines ( RY-nəs; 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."

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Born: 16 March 1918 wd
Place of birth: Paterson wd
Died: 26 August 1998 wd
Place of death: Orange wd
Citizenship: United States wd
Occupation: physicist, university teacher, Nobel Prize winner wd
Education: New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Union Hill High School wd

Awards wd

Guggenheim Fellowship
Nobel Prize in Physics (1995)
National Medal of Science (1983)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1981)
Franklin Medal (1992)
Panofsky Prize (1992)
Eagle Scout

About

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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When was Frederick Reines born?: Frederick Reines was born on 16 March 1918 in Paterson.
Where did Frederick Reines study?: Frederick Reines was educated at New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Union Hill High School.

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