The Nobel Prize committee has spoken, and the recipient for the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics is Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their discovery of neutrino oscillations! Congratulations to both the winners themselves and to their teams who made it possible.
By now the story of the neutrino oscillation is well known, at least in academic circles, and so it is fitting that the actual discovery should receive an award.
The story begins in 1930, when physicists were puzzled at beta decays...
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