Neutrino Nobel Prizes — Part 1: 1988 — Lederman, Schwartz, Steinberger and the muon neutrino
The 1988 Nobel Prize that confirmed neutrinos come in distinct flavors — and how an experiment at Brookhaven in 1962 first showed there are at least two.
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Neutrino History — Part 2: The first detection, the muon neutrino, Davis begins (1956–1970)
Part 2 of a six-part chronological history. Cowan and Reines catch the antineutrino, Wu discovers parity violation, Lederman/Schwartz/Steinberger find the muon neutrino, Davis starts at Homestake.
The two-neutrino experiment: how 1962 proved a second flavor exists
Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger fired pions through a 4,000-ton steel wall at Brookhaven and proved that muon neutrinos are not the same as electron neutrinos. The result earned them the 1988 Nobel Prize.