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2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

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🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery that one kind of neutrino can change into another, which shows that neutrinos have mass   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald.

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For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos

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have mass.

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Gorin Hanson, Secretary General of the Academy, a few minutes before 6 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Kajita is at the University of Tokyo.

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McDonald is with Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. At this moment,

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in this room, there are more than a billion neutrinos which travel almost at the speed of light.

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Anne Lullier is the chair of the Nobel Physics Committee. These elementary particles are the second

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most abundant in the universe, next to the photons, which are the particles of light.

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They are created in nuclear reactions, for example in the sun, in stars.

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They interact very little with the environment.

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For example, they can go through Earth without being stopped.

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There are three kinds of neutrinos, electron neutrinos, muonotrinos, and tau neutrinos.

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This year's price is awarded to the experimented discovery that neutrinos can change identity.

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