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Noted Japanese and Canadian Physicists Get Nobel Prize for 'Flipping' Neutrino Discovery

Benjie Batanes   |

Oct 07, 2015 08:00 AM EDT

Japan's Takaaki Kajita and Canada's Arthur McDonald - both physicists - were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for their joint discovery that neutrinos have mass after all. Before their discovery, it was generally believed that these elementary particles did not have mass.