UC Irvine Will Name Building for Nobel Prize Winner

UC Irvine will rename a physical science building Monday in honor of professor emeritus Frederick Reines, whose research won him a Nobel Prize.

The university’s Physical Sciences II building will be renamed Reines Hall at a 10:30 a.m. dedication ceremony in the building’s courtyard. University officials will unveil a bust of Reines which will be housed in the hall’s foyer.

Reines won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for tracking down the neutrino, the universe’s smallest particle. The prize highlighted the professor’s already stellar career marked by dozens of international scientific awards and prominent research posts.

During his tenure, Reines has been named a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He was selected to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1980. Five years later, President Ronald Reagan awarded Reines the National Medal of Science and UC Irvine gave him the Medal for Outstanding Research. He also was a recipient of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize.