Newspaper Clippings

On July 21, 2000 the DONUT collaboration announced the direct observation of the tau neutrino. Several local and national newspapers carried articles about this exciting news.

The news release at Fermilab and the slides from Byron's talk.

Newspapers in Minnesota that carried an article are:

• The University of Minnesota's own Minnesota Daily carried an article on 9/6/2000. (in pdf)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune (link and article in pdf).
• St. Paul Pioneer Press (link, in pdf; and MN contribution as link and pdf).
• Duluth News Tribune (in pdf). Unfortunately they didn't get the story quite right. They failed to mention that the U of M made a major contribution, and they were misguided in their interpretation of DONUT's impact on MINOS.

National news services:

• Gina was on Science Friday on NPR, you can listen to it in Real Audio (also here and here). NPR also had a short report on All Things Considered. The page is here, and in Real Audio.
• Bruce appeared on Chicago's WBEZ's Odyssey on Monday, 7/24/2000. The one-hour real audio is here.
• Associated Press (article in pdf).
• Reuters (article in pdf).
• Washington Post (article, in pdf).
• A long article in the Los Angeles Times (article, in pdf).
• New York Times (article, requires login). It was mentioned on the front page on 7/21/2000.
• Chicago Sun-Times (article, in pdf).
• Chicago Tribune (article, in pdf).
• Chicago's Daily Southtown (article, in pdf).
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch (article, in pdf).
• ABC news (article, in pdf).
• USA Today (article, in pdf). It was mentioned on the front page on 7/21/2000.
• Boston Globe (article, in pdf).
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (article, in pdf).
• The Atlana Journal-Constitution (in pdf).
• Discussion on Slashdot (discussion, in pdf).

International news:

• Asahi (article in pdf), a national Japanese newspaper (in Japanese).
• Mainichi Daily News (article in pdf) from Japan (in Japanese).
• BBC news (article, in pdf). Quoting from the article: "For this landmark discovery the scientists who found it could well be awarded a Nobel Prize in a few years time."
• El Pais (article, in pdf) (in Spanish). 
• Schwäbische Zeitung (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Hamburger Morgenpost (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Berlin Online (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Berliner Morgenpost (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Rheinische Post (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Süddeutsche Zeitung (article, in pdf) (in German).
• Le Monde (article, in pdf) (in French). Roger translated it into English. Apparently, the French are not as optimistic as the British, as evident from this quote: "La découverte des deux premiers neutrinos valut le prix Nobel à leurs auteurs. Ce ne sera sans doute pas le cas cette fois-ci", or "The discovery of the first two neutrinos earned the Nobel Prize for their authors. That will, without doubt, not be the case this time."
• The weekly Austrian magazine Profil had an article (pdf) and an interview with Vittorio (pdf).
• Der Spiegel (article, in pdf) (in German).
• La Repubblica (article, in pdf) (also comments by Luciano Maiani, in pdf) (in Italian).

Viewing software

The Real Audio homepage with free audio players.

To view pdf files, you need a viewer. Adobe has free viewers, and xpdf is available for many Unix platforms.

This page was last modified on 09/06/00 by Reinhard Schwienhorst.