Reines, Frederick
The American Frederick Reines (1918 - 1998), son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was a physicist.
In 1951, Frederick Reines and Clyde Lorrain Cowan began their quest for the neutrino. Because the neutrino was hypothetically created through beta decay, they used the Savannah River Plant as a source of potential neutrinos. In 1956, they concluded that they had indeed observed this particle.
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