Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald share Nobel Physics Prize
Kajita and McDonald claim the physics prize for their discovery of neutrino oscillations, “which shows that neutrinos have mass.” The committee said the finidng “can prove crucial to our view of the universe.”
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald brought about a “metamorphosis in the particle world,” as the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm put it on Tuesday. Working in native countries Japan and Canada respectively, the physicists contributed to demonstrating that neutrinos – “nature’s most elusive elementary particles” – have mass. Previously, they were thought to be massless.
“The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe,” the foundation said.
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