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Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; for this he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics .
May 27, 2024 · Raymond Davis, Jr. (born October 14, 1914, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died May 31, 2006, Blue Point, New York) was an American physicist who, with Koshiba Masatoshi, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for detecting neutrinos.
Raymond Davis Jr. was a physical chemist who pioneered neutrino physics and won the Nobel Prize in 2002. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and developed the chlorine-argon method to detect neutrinos from reactors and the sun.
May 31, 2006 · Raymond Davis Jr. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002. Born: 14 October 1914, Washington, D.C., USA. Died: 31 May 2006, Blue Point, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Prize motivation: “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”
The scientific career of the remarkable scientist Raymond Davis played an integral role in unraveling the complex nature of neutrinos and in confirming our nuclear fusion model of energy generation in the core of the Sun. By Kenneth Lande. The. Early life and work1.
Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting solar neutrinos, ghostlike particles produced in the nuclear reactions that power the sun. Davis shared the prize with Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan, and Riccardo Giacconi of the U.S.
Neutrino astronomy, the observation of neutrinos from extraterrestrial sources, began in 1966, when Raymond Davis, Jr. turned on his deep-underground chlorine-based neutrino detector. Over the next three decades, the lower-than-predicted solar neutrino flux that Davis observed confused the scientific community.
