Frederick Reines Quotes

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• I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by…
• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for…
• In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
• I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah…
• Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking…
• During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of…
• I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
• I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow…
• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
• Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in…
• Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in…
• Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted…
• This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966…

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