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Clyde Cowan

1919 - 1974

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Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (December 6, 1919 – May 24, 1974) was an American physicist and the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clyde Cowan is the 517th most popular physicist (up from 595th in 2019), the 4,681st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,555th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clyde Cowan ranks 517 out of 851. Before him are Jeremiah P. Ostriker, G. M. B. Dobson, Lester Germer, Yakir Aharonov, Ivan Puluj, and Louis-François-Clement Breguet. After him are Edoardo Amaldi, Konstantin Novoselov, Yuri Orlov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, David J. Griffiths, and Ole Worm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Clyde Cowan ranks 159. Before him are Pál Losonczi, Vera Aceva, Julia Robinson, Hyman Minsky, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, and Ota Šik. After him are Joan Brossa, Kathleen Freeman, Henri Vidal, Naushad, Albert Batteux, and Eva Gabor. Among people deceased in 1974, Clyde Cowan ranks 125. Before him are Ken Myers, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Silvio Moser, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Pink Anderson, and Richard Huelsenbeck. After him are George Van Biesbroeck, Olga Baclanova, Werner Kohlmeyer, Aman Andom, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, and André Marie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clyde Cowan ranks 4,681 out of 20,380. Before him are Cathy Berberian (1925), Michael Jai White (1967), Ric Ocasek (1949), Theresa Russell (1957), Tom Bosley (1927), and Nancy J. Currie-Gregg (1958). After him are Raphael Warnock (1969), Walter Koenig (1936), Larry Tesler (1945), William Graham Sumner (1840), Leon Spinks (1953), and P. J. Kennedy (1858).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clyde Cowan ranks 108. Before him are Alan Sokal (1955), Robert Brout (1928), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Serber (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), and Lester Germer (1896). After him are David J. Griffiths (1942), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Leona Woods (1919), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Grote Reber (1911).

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