What is Clyde Cowan?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Clyde Cowan | image = Clyde Cowan.jpg | caption = Clyde Cowan conducting the neutrino experiment, (c. 1956) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|12|6|mf=yes}} | birth_place = [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|5|24|1919|12|6|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[Bethesda, Maryland]], United States | nationality = United States | workplaces = [[The Catholic University of America]] | awards = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1957)<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/clyde-l-cowan/ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Clyde L. Cowan]</ref> | religion = | footnotes = | alma_mater = [[Washington University in St. Louis]] [[Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy]] }} '''Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr''' (December 6, 1919 – May 24, 1974) was an American physicist. He was the co-discoverer of the [[neutrino]] along with [[Frederick Reines]]. The discovery was made in 1956 in the [[neutrino experiment]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Reines, Frederick|title=Clyde L. Cowan Jr|journal=Physics Today|date=August 1974|volume=27|issue=8|pages=68–69|doi=10.1063/1.3128835|bibcode = 1974PhT....27h..68R }}</ref> Frederick Reines received the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1995 in both their names. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cowan, Clyde}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:1974 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Scientists from Detroit]] {{US-bio-stub}}