Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
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United StatesHe built a detector a mile underground and spent two decades proving the Sun works differently than anyone thought — then won a Nobel for catching particles that barely exist.
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Raymond Davis Jr. was an American chemist and physicist born October 14, 1914. In the 1960s he led the Homestake experiment, a detector buried deep underground designed to catch neutrinos streaming from the Sun. For more than twenty years the experiment ran, and it worked — the first time anyone had detected solar neutrinos. The results also revealed a puzzle: fewer neutrinos arrived than theory predicted, a discrepancy that eventually reshaped physics. Davis shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work. He died May 31, 2006.
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