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Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 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.
Raymond Davis Jr. (Washington, 14 ottobre 1914 – New York, 31 maggio 2006) è stato un chimico e fisico statunitense. È famoso per essere stato l'ideatore dell'esperimento di Homestake, nella omonima miniera di Dakota del Sud, che tra gli anni settanta e gli anni novanta portò all'individuazione dei neutrini solari.
26 apr 2024 · Raymond Davis, Jr. (born October 14, 1914, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died May 31, 2006, Blue Point, New York) was an American physicist who, with Koshiba Masatoshi, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for detecting neutrino s. Riccardo Giacconi also won a share of the award for his work on X-rays.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Raymond Davis Jr. Biographical . I was born in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1914. My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but, in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions, and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 was divided, one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos" and the other half to Riccardo Giacconi "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources".
12 lug 2006 · Father of solar neutrino detection. For 30 years, Ray Davis could have been mistaken as a miner. Clad in hard hat, headlamp and battery belt, he would join 50 other 'first shifters' for a...
Raymond Davis Jr., a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting solar neutrinos, ghostlike particles produced in the nuclear reactions that power the sun. Davis shared the prize with Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan, and Riccardo Giacconi of the U.S.
