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Photographer: By Anna Doliaitis, Staff writer, Aiken Standard
Taken: August 27, 2010
Caption: Savannah River Site Marker New Marker 2-44
Additional Description: *** Marker Reads... ***
The Detection of the Neutrino, 1956
On August 27, 1956, at the Savannah River Plant (now Savannah River Site), Drs. Clyde L. Cowan, Jr. (1919-1974) and Frederick Reines (1918-1999) used P Reactor to detect the neutrino, a sub-atomic particle hypothesized in 1930 but unconfirmed until their experiment, one of the most significant in modern physics.

The Nobel Prize, 1995
In 1995 Dr. Frederick Reines was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his and Dr. Clyde L. Cowan’s detection of the neutrino at the Savannah River Plant. The Nobel citation called their experiment “a pioneering contribution that opened the doors to the region of ‘impossible’ neutrino experiments.”
2-44 Erected by the Savannah River Site Heritage Foundation, 2010
Submitted: January 10, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p142187
File Size: 0.075 Megabytes

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