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| complete name: |
Raymond Davis, Jr |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
2002 |
| together with: |
Masatoshi Koshiba |
| together with: |
Riccardo Giacconi |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
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." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Raymond |
| family name: |
Davis |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
chemistry |
| work location: |
University of Pennsylvania, 34th & Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6303, United States of America |
| description: |
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. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2002/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1914 |
| date death: |
2006 |
| usual name: |
Raymond Davis |
