News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthur B. McDonald. Parent comment

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by apetresc on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:48AM (#10339675)
Maybe I'm confused, but it seems like he won the prize for completely unrelated work. Does the prize committee award it for the full lifetime work and simply pick one nominal project to credit, or has Arthur McDonald simply done two Nobel-worthy projects in his lifetime?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by adekok on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:07PM (#10339886)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...

"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”

Which indicates that he won it for work resulting from the SNO experiment.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by apetresc on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:22PM (#10341113)
Wait, so the water purification project led to the discovery that neutrinos have mass?

EDIT: Oh okay, I get it now. The project wasn't about building water purification systems, they just needed really really pure water to run particle-related experiments. Got it!

[ Parent | on HN ]