Prehistory of Neutrino Oscillations

Abstract

First ideas of neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations proposed by Bruno Pontecorvo in 1957 and later development of these ideas are considered in some details. Original ideas of the two-neutrino mixing proposed by Maki, Nakagawa and Sakata in 1962 are also discussed.

Comments: Report at the conference "History of the Neutrino", September 5-7, 2018, Paris, France