Frederick Reines, physicist, dies at 80

Frederick Reines, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known as the father of neutrino physics for his ground-break-ing research on particle physics, has died. He was 80.

Reines died Wednesday at University of California, Irvine Medical Center from complications of Parkinson's disease. He lived on the university campus, where he was a physics professor.In 1995, Reines won the Nobel Prize in physics for his research, sharing the award with Martin L. Perl of Stanford University.

A talented baritone, Reines also had solo roles in Handel's "Messiah" and sang with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra chorus.

Survivors include his wife, Sylvia, and two children.