HISTORY OF THE NEUTRINOS

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Historical summary
Prehistory of neutrino

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A short summary of the neutrino history


1898
Discovery of the radioactivity
The first car's races (70 km/h maximum!)

1926
Problem with beta radioactivity
Between two wars, people dance the Charleston and the Boston

1930
Pauli invents the neutrino particle
Crisis of 1929...

1933
Fermi baptizes the neutrino and builds his theory of weak interaction
Hitler gets power in Germany

1956
First discovery of the neutrino by an experiment nue
Riots in Budapest. Indochina. Cold war. Atmospheric tests of thermonuclear bombs.

1962
Discovery of an other type of neutrino: the numu
Missiles of Cuba, not far from the End!

1974
Discovery of neutral currents thanks to the neutrinos
Energy crisis... first oil problem

1977
Discovery of the tau (co-particle of nutau)
Energy crisis... second oil problem

1985-1989
Pseudo-discovery of a neutrino at 17 keV
The man on the moon 20 years ago. Mutations in European East countries

1990
The mystery of dark matter comes again
Berlin wall finally has fallen! It was on 11th of November 1989.

1991
LEP experiments show that there are only three light neutrinos
Eltsine is the new President of Russia. Iraq invades Koweit

1994
First proclamation of possible neutrinos oscillations seen by LSND experiment
Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Tchetchenia...

1995
Missing solar neutrinos confirmed by GALLEX
Internet and its WWW explode... and LAPP is 19 years old

1998
Neutrinos oscillations seen by Super-Kamiokande
Human rights declaration is 50 years old, 1968 is 30 years old

2001
Solar neutrinos oscillations seen by SNO experiment
USA under terrorist attack

2002
Reactor neutrinos oscillations seen by KamLAND
Human Genome is sequenced

2011
Neutrinos oscillations seen by Double Chooz, Daya Bay and RENO
Tsunami in Japan, Fukushima nuclear plant catastroph




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Didier Verkindt