1. Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr was an American physicist and the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines.
11 Facts About Clyde Cowan
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Clyde Cowan was a captain in the United States Army Air Forces, where he earned a bronze star in World War II.
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Clyde Cowan joined the US Army Chemical Warfare Service with the rank of Second Lieutenant when America joined World War II in 1941.
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Clyde Cowan returned to the United States in 1945, and worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
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Bill, Clyde Cowan attended Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, receiving a master's degree, and a PhD in 1949.
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Clyde Cowan then joined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, where he met Frederick Reines.
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Clyde Cowan alone received the award, because Cowan died in 1974, and Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously.
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Clyde Cowan began his teaching career in 1957 as a Professor of Physics at George Washington University in Washington, DC The following year he left GWU and joined the faculty of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, a post he held until the end of his life.
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Clyde Cowan acted at various times as a consultant to the US Atomic Energy Commission, US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Army, United Mine Workers of America, Electric Boat Co.
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Clyde Cowan died in Bethesda, Maryland of a sudden heart attack on May 24,1974, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Clyde Cowan was married in Woodford, England, January 29,1943 to Betty Eleanor, daughter of George Henry and Mabel Jane Dunham of Wanstead, England.