NOBEL IN THE FIELD OF NEUTRINOS
Ray Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba earned half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for discovering cosmic neutrinos. Koshiba led the team of researchers who validated Davis’ earlier findings at the Kamiokande detector in Japan (and also captured neutrinos from Supernova 1987a). “This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have used the universe’s tiniest elements to better grasp the universe’s largest: the Sun, stars, galaxies, and supernovae.” According to the news release, “new understanding has transformed the way we view the universe.” “Davis and Koshiba’s study has resulted in surprising discoveries as well as a new, intensive field of inquiry called neutrino-astronomy.
