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Physics Nobel: Neutrinos <i>Do</i> Have Mass

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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

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0:00.0

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0:32.3

Welcome to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

0:35.6

It's time to announce this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

0:40.3

I am Jordan Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy, and with me on the podium is the chair

0:46.7

of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Professor Annali, and Professor Olga Botner, member of the

0:53.7

Nobel Committee.

0:54.8

And I'm Steve Murski, and this is the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk for October 6th, 2015.

1:01.9

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

1:16.6

neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Back in 2010, Arizona State

1:24.0

University physicist Lawrence Krauss wrote a column for a scientific American called Why I Love Neutrinos.

1:30.9

We happened to be at the same event that summer, so I spoke to him for a few minutes about neutrinos.

1:35.4

We'll hear that conversation and then return to this morning's Nobel Prize announcement and press conference.

1:41.1

The most interesting particles in nature, they're everything you'd want.

1:44.4

They're elusive and mysterious.

1:46.6

We don't know much about them.

1:48.7

And 6,000 billion of them are going through your body every second.

1:52.1

I mean, you know, how much more exciting can that be?

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