| Frederick Reines  Born: 16-Mar-1918
Birthplace: Paterson, NJ
Died: 26-Aug-1998
Location of death: Orange, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discover of the neutrino American physicist Frederick Reines discovered the neutrino in 1956, collaborating with Clyde Cowan at the Savannah River atomic plant in South Carolina. The existence of the neutrino, an electrically neutral elementary particle having negligible mass moving at nearly the speed of light and interacting very weakly with matter, had been predicted by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, but until Cowan and Reines' discovery scientists had generally believed that these particles were so infinitesimally small that their existence could not be conclusively proven. Reines shared the 1995 Nobel Prize with the discoverer of the tau lepton, Martin L. Perl. Father: Israel Reines (store proprietor)
Mother: Gussie Cohen
Wife: Sylvia Samuels (m. 1940, one son, one daughter)
Son: Robert G. Reines
Daughter: Alisa K. Cowden
High School: Union Hill High School, Union City, NJ (1935)
University: ME Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1939)
University: MS Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology (1941)
University: PhD Theoretical Physics, New York University (1944)
Professor: Physics, Case Institute of Technology (1959-65)
Professor: Physics, University of California at Irvine (1965-87)
Administrator: Dean of Physical Sciences, University of California at Irvine (1965-74)
Professor: Radiological Science, University of California at Irvine (1970-91)
Professor: Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California at Irvine (1987-88)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Physicist (1944-59)
Eagle Scout
Guggenheim Fellowship 1958-59
J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize 1981
National Medal of Science 1983
AAS Bruno Rossi Prize 1989
APS W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics 1992
Benjamin Franklin Medal 1992 (by the Franklin Institute)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1995 (with Martin L. Perl)
American Physical Society 1957
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1966
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1979
Boy Scouts of America
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (1959-65)
Institute for Defense Analyses (1965-69)
NASA Electrophysics Advisory Committee (1963-64)
National Academy of Sciences 1980
Phi Beta Kappa Society 1969
RAND Corporation
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1994
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society 1944
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1959-63)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
US Atomic Energy Commission Operation Greenhouse
Manhattan Project (1944-45)
Jewish Ancestry
Russian Ancestry
Author of books:
Neutrinos and Other Matters (1991, selected physics papers)
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