Frederick Reines

Frederick Reines was an American physicist and university teacher born in Paterson in 1918. He worked at Case Western Reserve University, the University of California, Irvine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His field of work was physics, and he participated in the Manhattan Project. He is noted for his work on the neutrino.

Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Medal of Science, and the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was educated at New York University and Stevens Institute of Technology.

He died in Orange in 1998. His doctoral student was Michael K. Moe. Reines spoke English and had an Erdős number of 5. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates, Nobel Physics, American Academy Arts Sciences, and National Medal Of Science collections.