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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.

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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!

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