Frederick Reines papers, circa 1931-1999

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Frederick Reines papers, circa 1931-1999

Frederick Reines papers, circa 1931-1999

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7779p0zf

This collection documents Frederick Reines' career in nuclear physics and astrophysics as both a scientist and an academic. Material ranges from the early period of his career as a graduate student, through his early professional endeavors in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos, to his later work as an experimentalist and academic at Case Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The collection documents his major scientific interests in the detection of the neutrino and the investigation of its properties, the detection of neutrinos from cosmic events such as a 1987 supernova, and the investigation of fundamental conservation laws of particle physics. Significant projects represented in the papers include neutrino experiments at Hanford and Savannah River, and the collaborations of Case-Witswatersrand-Irvine (CWI), Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven (IMB), and the Deep Underwater Muon and Neutrino Detector (DUMAND). Other materials document Reines' professional and administrative positions at Case Institute of Technology and UCI, as well as his lifetime association with Los Alamos National Laboratory as a researcher, consultant, and member of the University of California committee charged with oversight of the laboratory.

71.5 linear feet; 91 boxes and 15 oversize folder

eng,

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections