Biography:Clyde Cowan
| Clyde Cowan | |
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| Cowan and Reines experiment image | |
| Born | 6 December 1919 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Died | 24 May 1974 Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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| Known for | First direct neutrino detection |
Clyde Cowan (1919-1974) was an American physicist who, with Frederick Reines, carried out the first direct experimental detection of the neutrino.
Neutrino detection
The Cowan-Reines experiment detected antineutrinos produced by a nuclear reactor. The result confirmed a particle that had been proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and named by Enrico Fermi.
The experiment made the neutrino a directly observed member of the lepton family.
Quantum Collection links
References
- "Frederick Reines - Facts". Nobel Prize Outreach. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1995/reines/facts/.
- "Neutrino". https://www.britannica.com/science/neutrino.
Author: Harold Foppele