2015 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, a significant advancement in particle physics. The laureates, Dr. Arthur McDonald and Dr. Takaaki Kajita, demonstrated that neutrinos have mass, which was a pivotal finding for the field. The announcement was made online at 11:45 CET, with a press release available on the Nobel Prize website. Discussions also highlighted the disappointment over Vera Rubin not receiving recognition for her work on dark matter, emphasizing the ongoing debates within the scientific community regarding neutrino properties and their implications.

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  • #31
No Chinese (from mainland) has got the award( in physics), that's a pity.

Nevertheless Tu Youyou got the Noble(in nature science), and becomes the 1st Chinese
 
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  • #32
Could this discovery answer any questions about ageing ?
 
  • #33
Neutrino oscillations (=this topic)? No.

The nobel prize in chemistry for DNA repair? Sure.
 
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  • #34
dodonaomik said:
No Chinese (from mainland) has got the award( in physics), that's a pity.

TD Lee, CS Wu and CN Yang were all born on the mainland.
 
  • #35
One thing that has me puzzled about the Miniboone experiment, which refuted the implication of a 4th neutrino species in the LSND data, is why they didn't use exactly the same energy, and distance to the detector, as were employed in the LSND experiment? It seems like that would be the ultimate check on the LSND results.
 

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