Lincoln Wolfenstein
Lincoln Wolfenstein · Science & Medicine
Physicist; matter effects on neutrino oscillations (MSW effect)
1923, Cleveland, Ohio, USA — 2015, Oakland, California, USA
United States · Carnegie Mellon University
Lincoln Wolfenstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; matter effects on neutrino oscillations (MSW effect)
Lincoln Wolfenstein was an American theoretical physicist whose 1978 work showed that neutrinos passing through matter feel an extra effective potential, altering their oscillations — the basis of the Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein (MSW) effect that explains the solar neutrino problem. He taught for decades at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; matter effects on neutrino oscillations (MSW effect)
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