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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Jul 12, 2006 · For 30 years, Ray Davis could have been mistaken as a miner. Clad in hard hat, headlamp and battery belt, he would join 50 other 'first shifters' for a pre-dawn ride a mile into the Earth.
- James R. Distel
- 2006
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. RAYMOND DAVIS JR. October 14, 1914–May 31, 2006 Elected to the NAS, 1982 By Kenneth Lande
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”
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.
