Cowan, Clyde Lorrain
The American Clyde Lorrain Cowan (1919 - 1974) was a physicist.
In 1951, Clyde Lorrain Cowan and Frederick Reines began their quest for the neutrino. Because the neutrino was hypo-thetically created through beta decay, they used the Savannah River Plant as a source of potential neutrinos. In 1956, they con¬cluded that they had indeed observed this particle.
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