Dossier
Clyde Cowan
Coverage of Clyde Cowan in the Nexus archive.
- How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines conducted 'Project Poltergeist' to detect neutrinos using a 10-ton detector surrounded by lead walls and wet sandbags near a nuclear reactor in South Carolina. The experiment aimed to capture elusive neutrinos, a challenge described as trying to catch a ghost.