Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond (Ray) Davis, Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He won the  Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He was awarded the prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos, looking at the solar neutrino problem in the Homestake Experiment. He was 88 years old when awarded the prize.

Davis, Jr. died in Blue Point, New York from Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.

References

Other websites
Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
Raymond Davis, Jr. biography at the Nobel Foundation
Raymond Davis Jr. , Brookhaven National Lab Web site
Neutrino web  at PBS NOVA
The Raymond Davis Scholarship  Society for Imaging Science and Technology

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