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Several of the most consequential figures in neutrino physics never received a Nobel Prize. The reasons are varied — early deaths, misdirected awards, Nobel rules — but the omissions remain striking.
For 33 years the Sun produced about a third as many neutrinos as theory predicted. The mystery drove an entire experimental program — and ended in vindication of both theory and a new branch of physics.
Ray Davis's Homestake experiment kept finding only a third of the solar neutrinos the Sun should be sending. It took three decades and a Canadian heavy-water detector to figure out why.
