Who discovered Neutrino Astronomy?

Question

Anyone who is very prominent in the field will do as well.

Answer 1

John Bahcall and Ray Davis first proposed astrophysical neutrino detection as a feasible experiment.

Davis pioneered neutrino detection techniques in the early 60's


Reines led the first effort that detect natural neutrinos. The first solar neutrino experiment was in the South Dakota Homestake mine.

The effort led by Ray Davis firmly documented the solar neutrino deficit, which in the end turned out to be simply because we did not fully understand neutrinos (they have a finite rest mass and can oscillate between neutrino types, so neutrinos created in the sun are not what we might expect by the time they reach earth.)

Davis eventually won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for this work. He died this year.

Answer 2

Astronomy - Time for SNEWS - Francis Reddy
... optically bright enough to be discovered, days after the explosion itself," says ... Antarctic telescope paints a neutrino sky "Supernova factory" opens annex ...www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=3232
Open Directory - Science: Physics: Particle: Neutrino
Science: Astronomy: Stars: Novae and Supernovae (15) ... of Neutrino Mass - Super-Kamiokande discovered neutrino oscillations which imply non-zero mass. ...dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Particle/Neutrino
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A SOURCE OF INFRARED RADIATION HAS BEEN DISCOVERED NEAR THE GALACTIC CENTER ... THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY (SNO), MAGNETIC FIELDS ARE EVERYWHERE. ...newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/catagories/astronomy.

Answer 3

he electron neutrino was discovered in 1956 by Frederick Reines