Physics: Raymond Davis Jr

Physics: Raymond Davis Jr
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Raymond Davis Jr (1914) Raymond Davis Jr.

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Raym ond Davis Jr (1914)

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Why is Raymond Davis Jr remembered? Ev ery major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Raymond Davis Jr was one of those people.

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About Raymond Davis Jr Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – M ay 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.