Neutrino Detection Chamber
name: label: maker
content: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: The neutrino, a tiny, abundant, and elusive particle, was posited by Wolfgang Pauli, a physicist in Zurich, in 1933, and first detected in 1956 by researchers Frederick Reines (1918-1998) and Clyde Cowan (1919-1974), in nuclear reactors at Hanford, Washington, and at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Reines and Cowan used this equipment for that work.
label: Description
content: Ref: “ATOM TEAM SEES GHOST NEUTRINO,” New York Times (Sept. 5, 1953), p. 11.
label: Description
content: F. Reines and C. L. Cowan, Jr., “Detection of the Free Neutrino,” Physical Review 92 (1953): 492.
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content: Philip Morrison, “The Neutrino,” Scientific American 194 (Jan. 1956): 58-69.
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content: “Dr. Clyde L. Cowan Jr., Co-Discoverer of Neutrino, Dies,” Washington Post (May 26, 1974), p. B6.
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content: “Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino,” New York Times (Aug. 28, 1998), p. A23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico, Los Alamos
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Science Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-07736
label: accession number
content: 230365
label: catalog number
content: N-7736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Neutrino Detector Tank
label: Object Name
content: detection chamber, neutrino
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 70 in x 65 in x 54 in; 177.8 cm x 165.1 cm x 137.16 cm