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In a beta decay process, not all of the released energy iscarried by the beta pa

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Question

In a beta decay process, not all of the released energy iscarried by the beta particle. Who proposed the existence of theneutrino in 1930 to account for the missing energy?

a. Erwin Schrödinger
b. Enrico Fermi
c. Wolfgang Pauli
d. Werner Heisenberg
e. Niels Bohr In a beta decay process, not all of the released energy iscarried by the beta particle. Who proposed the existence of theneutrino in 1930 to account for the missing energy? Erwin Schrödinger Enrico Fermi Wolfgang Pauli Werner Heisenberg Niels Bohr

Explanation / Answer

C: Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of the neutrino in1930. (Enrico Fermi actually gave it the name "neutrino")