Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties". Reines was born on March 16, 1918 in Paterson, New Jersey. Reines received his undergraduate degree in engineering and a master of science in mathematical physics from Stevens Institute of Technology, in 1939 and 1941, respectively. He then undertook graduate study in physics at New York University, where he worked for a while on experimental cosmic ray physics under S. A. Korff and eventually wrote a theoretical Ph.D. thesis on "The Liquid Drop Model for Nuclear Fission" under R. D. Present.  In 1983, he received the National Medal Of Science. He died on August 26, 1998 in Orange, California, United States.