Frederick Reines

American physicist (1918–1998)

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Frederick Reines was an American physicist who lived from 1918 to 1998 and made significant contributions to nuclear physics research. He is best known for his experimental work detecting the neutrino, a fundamental particle that had been theorized but never observed before.

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Vinony catalogs Frederick Reines in its Nobel Prize in Physics collection (230 entries). It also appears in Nobel Laureates.

Vinony's link graph records 744 inbound references to Frederick Reines, and connects out to Richard Feynman, Hans Bethe and cosmic radiation.

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Born: 1918
Works: 4

Top works

Cosmology, fusion & other matters
Neutrinos and other matters : the selected works of Frederick Reines
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Neutrinos and other matters

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Type: Group
Origin: Belgium

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5 total works indexed

A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,573x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,263x

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1995
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Commons category: Frederick Reines
date of birth: 1918-03-16
date of death: 1998-08-26
Erdős number: 5

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Encyclopedic overview

Frederick Reines (/ˈraɪnəs/ 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. He became a group leader there in 1946. He participated in a number of nuclear tests, culminating in his becoming the director of the Operation Greenhouse test series in the Pacific in 1951.

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