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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Wins First Polanyi Award

11-15-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

The winners of the inaugural $250,000 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award are the scientists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), who are being honored for their groundbreaking research on neutrinos, announced the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The idea behind SNO's most notable achievement - proving neutrino oscillation – began with Brookhaven chemist Ray Davis Jr.

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