Kajita and McDonald win Nobel physics prize for work on neutrinos
by James Randersonand Ian Sample from on (#PKQ9)
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald win for discovery of neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass
The Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos weigh something more than nothing.
Named after the Italian for "little neutral one", neutrinos have no electric charge and were long thought to have zero mass, but Kajita at the University of Tokyo and McDonald at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, showed otherwise.
