How to Pronounce Sándor Szalay (physicist)
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Oct 04, 1909 Nyíregyháza, Szabolcs Szatmár Bereg County, Hungary Died on 11 Oct 1987 (aged 78)
Hungarian nuclear physicist
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About Sándor Szalay Physicist
- Sándor Szalay, Sr.
- (October 4, 1909 – October 11, 1987) was a pioneer of Hungarian nuclear physics.He discovered a natural mechanism for uranium enrichment, which led to the discovery of several uranium deposits including an enriched deposit in the Mecsek Mountains of Hungary.
- In 1955 he collaborated with Gyula Csikai to discover the neutrino, a weakly interactive particle.
- In a photograph of a cloud chamber, they found a nucleus changing direction, which they interpreted as the emission of a neutrino.
- (The antineutrino was detected by Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan in 1953, a discovery for which Reines was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.) Szalay also founded the Institute of Nuclear Research, a branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- He is considered the father of Hungarian nuclear physics.
