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Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the two researchers had made key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos change identities. Neutrinos are particles that whiz through the universe at nearly the speed of light. They are created in nuclear reactions, such as in the sun and the stars, or in nuclear power plants.

"The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe," the academy said. Kajita, 56, is director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at the University of Tokyo. McDonald, 72, is a professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-kajita-mcdonald-nobel-physics-prize.html

In medicine, the prize is split in half with one half going to William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their work on avermectin, a drug that kills roundworms that cause blindness and deformities, and the other half going to Youyou Tu for work on artemisinin, a drug that kills the parasite that causes malaria.

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