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Frederick Reines

1918 - 1998

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Frederick Reines ( RY-nəs; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties." A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University, Reines joined the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944, working in the Theoretical Division in Richard Feynman's group. He became a group leader there in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Reines is the 228th most popular physicist (down from 227th in 2019), the 890th most popular biography from United States (up from 911th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Physicist.

Frederick Reines is most famous for his work in the discovery of the neutrino particle.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Reines ranks 228 out of 851. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, and Alexander Prokhorov. After him are Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, and Victor Weisskopf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Frederick Reines ranks 33. Before him are Bertram Brockhouse, Jerome Karle, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, Gunnar Sønsteby, and Derek Barton. After him are Muriel Spark, Chaim Herzog, Rosalia Lombardo, Arthur Kornberg, Choi Hong Hi, and Franco Modigliani. Among people deceased in 1998, Frederick Reines ranks 20. Before him are Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, Derek Barton, Niklas Luhmann, and Conrad Schumann. After him are Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Tameo Ide, Theodore Schultz, George H. Hitchings, and Raymond Cattell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Reines ranks 890 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Johnson (1949), William Standish Knowles (1917), Frances E. Allen (1932), Alan J. Heeger (1936), David Koch (1940), and Jack Palance (1919). After him are Ray Kroc (1902), John Deere (1804), Joe Louis (1914), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Frank Abagnale (1948), and Sidney Lumet (1924).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frederick Reines ranks 48. Before him are Steven Weinberg (1933), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), and Michio Kaku (1947). After him are Robert Hofstadter (1915), Arthur Ashkin (1922), David Bohm (1992), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Benjamin Thompson (1753), and Leon M. Lederman (1922).

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