Frederick Reines
- Born: March 16, 1918 (Paterson, New Jersey)
- Died: August 26, 1998 (Orange, California)
Education
- 1939: ME, Stevens Institute of Technology
- 1941: MS, Stevens Institute of Technology
- 1944: PhD, New York University (Theoretical Physics)
Major Positions
- 1944–1959: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Staff Member and Group Leader
- 1959–1966: Case Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
- 1966–1974: University of California, Irvine, Dean, Physical Sciences
- 1966–1987: University of California, Irvine, Professor of Physics
- 1987–1988: University of California, Irvine, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- 1988–1998: University of California, Irvine, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1951–1951: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Experiment Director, Operation Greenhouse, Eniwetok Atoll
- 1959–1966: Case Institute of Technology, Head, Department of Physics
- 1959–1966: Case Institute of Technology, Chair, Joint Research in High Energy Physics Program with Western Reserve University
- 1970–1998: University of California, Irvine, Professor of Radiological Science, Medical School
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1949–1953: Consultant, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
- 1950–1950: Consultant, RAND Corporation
- 1961–1964: Member, Board of Trustees, Argonne Universities Association
- 1963–1964: Member, Electrophysics Advisory Committee, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 1965–1969: Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses
- 1965–1969: Consultant, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1957: American Physical Society, Fellow
- 1966: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
- 1979: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
- 1980: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1983: National Medal of Science
- 1992: American Physical Society, W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
- 1995: Nobel Prize in Physics
Archival Resources
University of California at Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Irvine, California
Online Finding Aid
Additional Papers: Case Western Reserve University Archives, Cleveland, Ohio
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
William Kropp, Jonas Schultz, and Henry Sobel, "Frederick Reines: 1918-1998", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Frederick Reines, "Detection of the Neutrino," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 359-366
