Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

Takaaki Kajita

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Prize share: 1/2

Arthur B. McDonald

© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud

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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