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Neutrino scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics

  • Professors Anne L'Huillier (L-R), Goran K. Hansson and Olga Botner, members of the Nobel Assembly, talk to the media at a news conference in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
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    Professors Anne L'Huillier, Hansson and Botner, members of the Nobel Assembly, talk to the media at a news conference in Stockholm

    Professors Anne L'Huillier (L-R), Goran K. Hansson and Olga Botner, members of the Nobel Assembly, talk to the media at a news conference in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
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  • Members of the media attend a news conference at the Royal Swedich Academy in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
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    Members of the media attend a news conference at the Royal Swedich Academy in Stockholm

    Members of the media attend a news conference at the Royal Swedich Academy in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
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  • Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, smiles with University of Tokyo President Makoto Gonokami during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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    Takaaki Kajita, director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, smiles with University of Tokyo President Makoto Gonokami during a news conference in Tokyo

    Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, smiles with University of Tokyo President Makoto Gonokami during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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  • Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, receives flowers from his university during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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    Takaaki Kajita, director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, receives flowers from his university during a news conference in Tokyo

    Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, receives flowers from his university during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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  • Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, speaks on the phone shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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    Arthur B. MacDonald speaks on the phone shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in Kingston

    Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, speaks on the phone shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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  • Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, and his wife Janet (L) watch television news shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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    Arthur B. MacDonald watches TV shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in Kingston

    Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, and his wife Janet (L) watch television news shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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  • Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, receives a hug from his wife Janet, shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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    Arthur B. MacDonald is embraced by his wife shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in Kingston

    Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, receives a hug from his wife Janet, shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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Professors Anne L'Huillier (L-R), Goran K. Hansson and Olga Botner, members of the Nobel Assembly, talk to the media at a news conference in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
Members of the media attend a news conference at the Royal Swedich Academy in Stockholm October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency
Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, smiles with University of Tokyo President Makoto Gonokami during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Takaaki Kajita (R), director of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, receives flowers from his university during a news conference in Tokyo October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, speaks on the phone shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, and his wife Janet (L) watch television news shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
Arthur B. MacDonald, professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, receives a hug from his wife Janet, shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics at his home in Kingston, Ontario October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Japan's Takaaki Kajita and Canada's Arthur B. McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery that neutrinos, labelled nature's most elusive particles, have mass, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. "The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement awarding the 8 million Swedish crown ($962,000) prize. The scientists' research discovered a new phenomenon – neutrino oscillations - that was seen as ground-breaking for particle physics. "Yes there certainly was a Eureka moment in this experiment when we were able to see that neutrinos appeared to change from one type to the other in travelling from the Sun to the Earth," McDonald told a news conference in Stockholm by telephone. Kajita is director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at University of Tokyo, while McDonald is professor Emeritus at Queen’s University in Canada. Physics is the second of this year's Nobels. The prizes were first awarded in 1901 to honour achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and business tycoon Alfred Nobel. ($1 = 8.3151 Swedish crowns) (Reporting by Stockholm Newsroom; Editing by Alistair Scrutton)