Neutrino conference turns 50

In February 1972, in the break of a regional meeting of particle physicists held in Budapest Herbert Pietschmann (Vienna), Jan Nilsson (Go¨ teborg) and George Marx (Budapest) discussed the subdued position of weak interactions at international conferences. H. Pietschmann: “For George Marx it was quite obvious that the neglect of neutrino physics at the big international conferences had to be neutralised by a dedicated international conference on neutrino physics. Instead of pushing some international committee, he took the idea in his own hands and organised a Europhysics neutrino conference in Hungary by himself.