Readings from the Physics Today Archive Related to the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics

Raymond Davis Jr.
University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Masatoshi Koshiba
University of Tokyo, Japan

"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"

and

Riccardo Giacconi
Associated Universities Inc, USA

"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

Below is a collection of Physics Today articles that provide background to the award. More will appear during the day.

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Progress in X-Ray Astronomy
Part 1 Part 2
Riccardo Giacconi
May 1973, page 38

Cosmic Ray Showers Provide Strong Evidence of Neutrino Flavor Oscillation
Bertram Schwarzschild
August 1998, page 17

Novel Heavy-Water Detector Unveils the Missing Solar Neutrinos
Bertram Schwarzschild
August 2001, page 13

Direct Measurement of the Sun's Total Neutrino Output Confirms Flavor Metamorphosis
Bertram Schwarzschild
July 2002, page 13

Chandra Probes Deeper into the Mystery of the X-Ray Background
Charles Day
May 2000, page 18

Chandra X-Ray Observatory Examines
a New Kind of Black Hole
Bertram Schwarzschild
N0vember 2000, page 19

Solar Neutrino Experiments: The Next Generation
Part 1 Part 2
John N. Bahcall, Frank Calaprice, Arthur B. McDonald and Yoji Totsuka
July 1996, pages 30

Conversion In Matter May Account for Missing Solar Neutrinos
Bertram Schwarzschild
June 1986, page 17

© 2002 American Institute of Physics