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Raymond Davis Jr. was born on 14 October, 1914 in Washington, D.C., United States, is an American scientist (1914–2006). Discover Raymond Davis Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 14 October, 1914
Birthday 14 October
Birthplace Washington, D.C., United States
Date of death 31 May, 2006
Died Place Blue Point, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1914

Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist.

1938

He received his B.S. from the University of Maryland in 1938 in chemistry, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

1942

He also received a master's degree from that school and a Ph.D. from Yale University in physical chemistry in 1942.

Davis spent most of the war years at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah observing the results of chemical weapons tests and exploring the Great Salt Lake basin for evidence of its predecessor, Lake Bonneville.

1945

After his discharge from the army in 1945, Davis went to work at Monsanto's Mound Laboratory, in Miamisburg, Ohio, doing applied radiochemistry of interest to the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

1948

In 1948, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was attempting to find peaceful uses for nuclear power.

Davis reports that he was asked "to find something interesting to work on," and dedicated his career to the study of neutrinos, particles which had been predicted to explain the process of beta decay, but whose separate existence had not been confirmed.

Davis investigated the detection of neutrinos by beta decay, the process by which a neutrino brings enough energy to a nucleus to make certain stable isotopes into radioactive ones.

Since the rate for this process is very low, the number of radioactive atoms created in neutrino experiments is very small, and Davis began investigating the rates of processes other than beta decay that would mimic the signal of neutrinos.

Using barrels and tanks of carbon tetrachloride as detectors, Davis characterized the rate of the production of argon-37 as a function of altitude and as a function of depth underground.

1954

He deployed a detector containing chlorine atoms at the Brookhaven Reactor in 1954 and later one of the reactors at Savannah River.

These experiments failed to detect a surplus of radioactive argon when the reactors were operating over when the reactors were shut down, and this was taken as the first experimental evidence that neutrinos causing the chlorine reaction, and antineutrinos produced in reactors, were distinct.

Detecting neutrinos proved considerably more difficult than not detecting antineutrinos.

Davis was the lead scientist behind the Homestake Experiment, the large-scale radiochemical neutrino detector which first detected evidence of neutrinos from the sun.

1960

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.

Davis was born in Washington, D.C., where his father was a photographer for the National Bureau of Standards.

He spent several years as a choirboy to please his mother, although he could not carry a tune.

He enjoyed attending the concerts at the Watergate before air traffic was loud enough to drown out the music.

His brother Warren, 14 months younger than he, was his constant companion in boyhood.

2002

Davis shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 with Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba and Italian Riccardo Giacconi for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, Davis was recognized for his work on 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 met his wife Anna Torrey at Brookhaven and together they built a 21-foot wooden sailboat, the Halcyon.

They had five children and lived in the same house in Blue Point, New York for over 50 years.

He died in Blue Point, New York, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.