Frederick Reines

Frederick Reines was an American physicist and university teacher who worked in the field of physics. Born in Paterson in 1918, he died in Orange in 1998. He was educated at New York University and the Stevens Institute of Technology. Reines participated in the Manhattan Project and served as an employer at Case Western Reserve University, the University of California, Irvine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

His notable work focused on the neutrino. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Reines 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 also supervised doctoral student Michael K. Moe.