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Frederick Reines

1918 - 1998

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Frederick Reines ( RY-nəs; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties." A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University, Reines joined the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944, working in the Theoretical Division in Richard Feynman's group. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Reines has received more than 223,812 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Frederick Reines is the 226th most popular physicist (down from 194th in 2019), the 911th most popular biography from United States (down from 896th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Physicist.

Frederick Reines is most famous for his work in the discovery of the neutrino particle.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Reines ranks 226 out of 851. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, John Clauser, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Roy J. Glauber. After him are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Theodor W. Hänsch, Edme Mariotte, Makoto Kobayashi, Burton Richter, and Joseph Plateau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Frederick Reines ranks 31. Before him are Billy Graham, Muriel Spark, Ernst Otto Fischer, Jens Christian Skou, Rosalia Lombardo, and Franco Modigliani. After him are Yigal Allon, Ahmed Deedat, Bertram Brockhouse, Arthur Kornberg, James Tobin, and Maurice Druon. Among people deceased in 1998, Frederick Reines ranks 19. Before him are Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, and Falco. After him are Tameo Ide, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, and Allan MacLeod Cormack.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Reines ranks 911 out of 20,380. Before him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Daniel Keyes (1927), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Lewis Strauss (1896), John Lee Hooker (1917), and Ray Tomlinson (1941). After him are Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Jill Biden (1951), James Hetfield (1963), Don Shirley (1927), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), and Willard Libby (1908).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frederick Reines ranks 49. Before him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), John L. Hall (1934), John Clauser (1942), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), and Roy J. Glauber (1925). After him are Burton Richter (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899).

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