The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-08
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Affiliations:
- University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Raymond Davis Jr.
Born: 1914-10-14 in Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: male
Field: American scientist (1914–2006)
Biography
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.