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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 .
A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but, in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions, and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section. His early influence led me in the direction of individual experimentation and designing my own apparatus.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 was divided, one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos" and the other half to Riccardo Giacconi "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources".
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”
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.
Jun 2, 2006 · Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for capturing evanescent particles known as neutrinos from the sun, died on Wednesday at his home...
Raymond Davis was born in Washington, DC in 1914, the son of a photographer and inventor who provided Raymond with chemicals for experiments in his own basement laboratory. Little wonder, then that he gained a degree in chemistry at the University of Maryland in 1938.
Jun 5, 2006 · Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of solar neutrinos, died on May 31 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 91.
The Life of Raymond Davis, Jr. and the Beginning of Neutrino Astronomy. 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.
