Frederick Reines - Co-Discoverer of the Neutrino

• co-discovery of the elementary particle neutrino
• discovery of neutrinos produced in the atmosphere
• co-discovery of neutrinos from a supernova - SN1987A (Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven Collaboration)
• study of muons resulting from neutrino interactions
• observation of scattered electron antineutrinos

Reines never lost his love of singing. He performed publicly and was known to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes at parties and in the hallways of UCI. He retired in 1988. He was hospitalized when the announcement was received that he had won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics. Frederick Reines died August 26, 1998.

Honors and Awards

• Sigma Xi, 1944
• Centennial Lecturer, University of Maryland, 1956
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1957
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1958-1959
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1959-1963
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1966
• Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1966
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
• Stevens Honor Award, 1971
• Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1979
• Fellow, American Association Advancement of Science, 1979
• National Academy of Sciences, 1980
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, 1981
• Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1984
• Medal for Outstanding Research, University of California, Irvine, 1985
• National Medal of Science, 1985
• L.I. Schiff Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University, 1988
• Albert Einstein Memorial Lecturer, Israel Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 1988
• Bruno Rossi Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1989
• Michelson-Morley Award, 1990
• Goudsmidt Memorial Lecturer, 1990
• New York University Plaque, 1990
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, New York University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1990
• W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1992
• The Franklin Medal, awarded by the Benjamin Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts, 1992
• Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994
• Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995

Sources

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1995/reines-autobio.html

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http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/reines.html?CFID=677182&CFTOKEN=83422752

http://almaz.com/nobel/physics/1995b.html

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http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/news5/cicerone5.html

http://www.nndb.com/people/052/000099752/

http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/38/8/21/1

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