In the 20 July 1956 issue of "Science", Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines, F. B. Harrison, H. W. Kruse, and A. D. McGuire published confirmation that they had detected the neutrino, a result that was rewarded almost forty years later with the 1995 Nobel Prize.
=== Neposredno odkritje ===Wang Ganchang je leta 1942 prvi predlagal uporabo beta-kletke za eksperimentalno odkritje nevtrinov.