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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 pi
by apetresc 11y ago
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?
- adekok 11y agohttp://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/press.html 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.
- apetresc 11y agoWait, 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!