Fredrick Reines
1918-1998
American physicist who discovered the antineutrino and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995. Like many young physicists in the 1940s, Reines worked on the Manhattan...
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Frederick Reines is best known for his discovery of the neutrino , a particle that is created during a nuclear reaction. Since that discovery, he continued to concentrate on the search for neutrinos a...
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Reines was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 16, 1918. He did his undergraduate work at the Stevens Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from New York University in...
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