Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006) · United States · Scientists · Died at 91
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Something wrong?He 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.
In common with Raymond
Percy Williams BridgmanBoth received Comstock Prize in Physics
Frederick ReinesBoth received Panofsky Prize
Jocelyn Bell BurnellBoth received Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
Arthur B. McDonaldBoth received Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
François EnglertBoth received Wolf Prize in Physics
Theodor W. HänschBoth received Comstock Prize in PhysicsFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.