“Nobel” in physics awarded for neutrino oscillations – BBC

06.10.2015, 12:54

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 steel Takaaki Kadzita scientists and Arthur McDonald, opened neutrino oscillations.

The prize was awarded for “their contribution to the experiments that have shown that neutrinos can change their essence. These metamorphoses require that neutrinos have mass. The discovery has changed our understanding of the inner workings of matter and become the key to our perception of the universe. Millennium Takaaki Khajiiti opened detector in Japan that atmospheric neutrinos switch from one to another state. Meanwhile, a research group in Canada, under the leadership of McDonald was able to demonstrate that neutrinos emitted from the sun, do not disappear on their way to Earth. On the contrary, they are trapped with in various guises in the neutrino observatory Sudbury, – said in a statement.

Earlier, the company Thomson Reuters candidates for the award called Paul Corkum and Ferenc Kausch for contribution to development attosecond physics. Among the potential candidates were also called Deborah Jin, received the first fermionic condensate, and Zhong Lin Wang, inventor pezotronnogo nanogenerators.

In addition, the award has long predicted astronomer Vera Rubin and Kent Ford, discovered dark matter, and Michel Mayor who discovered the first exoplanet. In 2014, for the development of the blue optical diodes received the award Japanese scientists.