PHYSICS: Frederick Reines 1995 - Irvine, CA
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Frederick Reines, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus won the Nobel Prize if Physics for his contribution for the detection of the Neutrino. Located at the plaza level of the Reines Hall, this bust and plaque is located in the lobby area.
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Date Posted: 12/13/2009
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Dr. Frederick Reines (1918-1998), when he taught at the University of California, Irvine, was a fixture around the halls of the Physics Building. Just inside the lobby of Reines Hall, is the bust that was unveiled to commemorate his Nobel Prize.
FREDERICK REINES
Founding Dean
School of Physical Sciences
University of California, Irvine
1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
"For the Detection of the Neutrino"
Dr. Reines' Q Machine could be seen in one of his laboratories. To me, it looked like as mass of wires and stuff, but years later, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution on the detection of the Neutrino.
Frederick Reines made pioneering contributions during the 1950s together with the late Clyde L. Cowan, Jr., which led to their being able to demonstrate experimentally the existence of the antineutrino of the electron.
Frederick Reines' and Clyde L. Cowan's first observation of neutrinos was a pioneering contribution that opened the doors to the region of "impossible" neutrinoexperiments. Nowadays we are attempting to capture neutrinos in cosmic radiation that may originate in the sun or in supernovas (exploding stars). Because of the reluctance of neutrinos to react with atomic nuclei and thus allow themselves to be captured, very large detector volumes are required for these experiments. While Reines and Cowan in the 1950s managed with about half a cubic metre of water in their detector, large-scale experiments in the 1990s use many thousand cubic metres. Some experiments have even used surrounding sea or ice as their detector volume.
Excerpt from nobelprize.org