#frederick reines

[lindahall]

Frederick Reines – Scientist of the Day

Frederick Reines, an American physicist, was born Mar. 16, 1918.

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[teachersource]

Frederick Reines was born on March 16, 1918. An American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties."

[teachersource]

Frederick Reines was born on March 16, 1918. An American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history “so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties.”

[wtsfno]

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Frederick Reines

[qotznet]

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

[bhagatkapil]

Frederick Reines

[nuclearvault]

Project Orion (1958 -- 1963)

Project Orion was a study of spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by nuclear pulse propulsion, or a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft. Earlier versions of the vehicle were proposed to launch from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout, although later versions were presented for use only in space.

This concept offered high thrust and high specific impulse (propellant efficiency) simultaneously. Meeting such unprecedented extreme power requirements for doing so would be accomplished through nuclear explosions of such power, relative to the vehicle's mass as to be survived only by using external detonations without attempting to contain them in internal structures. 

The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project.