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Raymond Davis Jr.
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Raymond Davis Jr.

Scientist · born October 14, 1914 · died 2006

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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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  1. ~86Received the Wolf Prize in Physics2000
  2. ~87Received the National Medal of Science2001
  3. ~88Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2002
  4. ~89Received the Enrico Fermi Award2003
  5. ~89Received the Benjamin Franklin Medal2003

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