Editing 1953 in science (section)

==Physics==
* [[Frederick Reines]] and [[Clyde Cowan]] perform the first [[neutrino]] detection experiments, constructing the first neutrino detector (a [[cadmium]]-water target) and using the [[Hanford Site]] nuclear facility in [[Washington (state)|Washington state]] as the neutrino source.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=F.|last1=Reines|first2=C. L. Jr.|last2=Cowan|title=Detection of the Free Neutrino |journal=[[Physical Review]] |volume=92|issue=3|pages=830–831 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.92.830|bibcode=1953PhRv...92..830R  |date=November 1953|doi-access=free}}</ref> This work, first discussed with [[Enrico Fermi]] and others in 1951–2, leads to the 1995 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* [[Enrico Fermi]], [[John Pasta]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], and [[Mary Tsingou]] conduct computer simulations of a vibrating string that included a non-linear term in what became known as the [[Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment]].
* [[Charles Kittel]] publishes his influential textbook ''[[Introduction to Solid State Physics]]'' in the United States.