The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

Photo © Takaaki Kajita

Takaaki Kajita

Prize share: 1/2

Photo: K. MacFarlane. Queen's University /SNOLAB

Arthur B. McDonald

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/

The Nobel Prize in Physics

Awarded to 201 Nobel Laureates since 1901

"The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics ..."
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