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Encyclopedia > Clyde L. Cowan

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.


Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.


He is buried in Arlington Cemetery.




External links

  • Neutrino history (http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/anhistory.html)





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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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