Frederick Reines (born 16.03. 1918) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was born in Paterson. He graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology (1939) and New York University. In 1944 — 59 he worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and in 1959 —66 — he was professor and head of the department of physics at the Case Institute of Technology. From 1966 he has been professor at the University of California (at Irvine).
His research was in the field of elementary particle physics, neutrino physics (the detection of the free neutrino and the observation of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic radiation) and detection equipment (liquid scintillation counters). In 1956, together with C. Cowan, he was the first to detect the free antineutrino experimentally, in inverse beta decay: v + p → e+ + n. Together with others he gave experimental proof of the law of conservation of baryon charge by determining the lifetime of the proton, by the scheme p→e++π0, as of the order of 3*1024 years (1957); in 1979 he obtained a value of more than 1030 years. In 1976 he detected the process of scattering of electron antineutrinos from a reactor by electrons. He was one of the initiators of the experiment for the deep-water detection of muons and neutrinos (DUMAND).
The R. Oppenheimer Prize (1981).
His research was in the field of elementary particle physics, neutrino physics (the detection of the free neutrino and the observation of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic radiation) and detection equipment (liquid scintillation counters). In 1956, together with C. Cowan, he was the first to detect the free antineutrino experimentally, in inverse beta decay: v + p → e+ + n. Together with others he gave experimental proof of the law of conservation of baryon charge by determining the lifetime of the proton, by the scheme p→e++π0, as of the order of 3*1024 years (1957); in 1979 he obtained a value of more than 1030 years. In 1976 he detected the process of scattering of electron antineutrinos from a reactor by electrons. He was one of the initiators of the experiment for the deep-water detection of muons and neutrinos (DUMAND).
The R. Oppenheimer Prize (1981).