Raymond Davis Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Davis Jr.

American scientist

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1914

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 31-May-2006

Profession: physicist, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Raymond "Ray" 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.