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Clyde Cowan

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Co-discoverer of the neutrino

United StatesScientistsLived 1919 to 1974 · aged 54
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Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr 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.

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Frederick Reines, left, and Clyde Cowan, at the controls of the Savannah River neutrino experiment (c. 1956)Frederick Reines, left, and Clyde Cowan, at the controls of the Savannah River neutrino experiment (c. 1956)Frederick Reines (far right) with Clyde Cowan (far left) and other members of Project Poltergeist, 1953Frederick Reines (far right) with Clyde Cowan (far left) and other members of Project Poltergeist, 1953

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Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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United States
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 1974 · aged 54
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