Side 1	|	Side 2
THE DETECTION OF THE	|	THE NOBEL PRIZE IN
NEUTRINO, 1956	|	PHYSICS,1995
On August 27, 1956, at the Savannah	|	(continued from other side)
River Plant (now Savannah River	|	In 1995 Dr. Frederick Reines was
Site), Drs. Clyde L. Cowan, Jr.	|	awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
(1919-1974) and Frederick Reines	|	for his and Dr. Clyde L. Cowan's
(1918-1998) used P Reactor to detect	|	detection of the neutrino at the
the neutrino, a sub-atomic particle	|	Savannah River Plant. The Nobel
hypothesized in 1930 but unconfirmed	|	citation called their experiment
until their experiment, one of the	|	"a pioneering contribution that
most significant in modern physics.	|	opened the doors to the region of
(continued on next side)	|	'impossible' neutrino experiments."