How winning team detected elusive neutrinos From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 20, 1988| Author: Jim Ritter | Copyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

By the time you're finished reading this sentence, billions of ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos will have shot through your body.

Neutrinos are harmless, extremely light particles that carry no electric charge. As a consequence, a single speeding neutrino could penetrate a steel wall 100 million miles thick.

In 1961, Leon Lederman and two other physicists ran an ingenious experiment to detect these elusive particles.

In the process of finding about 50 n...

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