Nobel Prize In Physics Goes To Scientists Who Discovered Neutrinos Have Mass

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 08:20 in Astronomy & Space

Takaaki Kajita, joint winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Eugene Hoshiko/ASSOCIATED PRESS Takaaki Kajita of Japan, director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks after learning he won the Nobel Prize in physics at the university in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. This in morning in Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl Vetenskaps Akademien) awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald and Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita, “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” The two scientists will split the nearly $1 million USD (8 million Swedish Krona) prize. Kajita presented his discovery in 1998, which showed that neutrinos seemed to change identities between...

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