NOBEL IN THE FIELD OF NEUTRINOS
The discovery of the electron neutrino earned Frederick Reines a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995. Martin Perl received the rest of the money for discovering the tau lepton. Clyde Cowan passed away in 1974, making him ineligible for the Nobel Prize, which is not given posthumously. “Frederick Reines’ and Clyde L. Cowan’s first sighting of neutrinos was a pioneering contribution that opened the doors to the realm of “impossible” neutrino investigations,” according to the press release.