Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
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.

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