Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald were given the award for their work on subatomic particles called neutrinos. The scientists from the University of Tokyo and Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, have won the prize “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. The Nobel Committee said their research had “changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe”.
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