Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Chemist who caught solar neutrinos in a South Dakota gold mine and won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for it. Raymond Davis Jr. turned an underground tank into humanity's first successful neutrino detector.
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Raymond Davis Jr. 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.
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