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Clyde L. Cowan - definition of Clyde L. Cowan in Encyclopedia (85 words) |
 | Clyde L. Cowan - definition of Clyde L. Cowan in Encyclopedia |
| Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (1919–1974) was a captain in the United States Army Air Force. |
| In 1956, along with Fred Reines, he detected the existence of the neutrino in the neutrino experiment. |
| Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics (2081 words) |
| Frederick Reines' and Clyde L. Cowan's first observation of neutrinos was a pioneering contribution that opened the doors to the region of "impossible" neutrinoexperiments. |
| Reines and Cowan realised the importance of detecting both the neutron and the positron to reduce the risk of erroneous interpretation. |
| Nevertheless Reines and Cowan succeeded in a feat considered to border on the impossible: They had raised the neutrino from its status as a figure of the imagination to an existence as a free particle. |
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