The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
© Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Takaaki Kajita
Prize share: 1/2
© Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Arthur B. McDonald
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass."
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