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Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond Davis Jr.
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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.

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Who was born first?

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  1. Alan Lloyd HodgkinFebruary 5, 1914 – December 20, 1998
  2. George Bernard DantzigNovember 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005
  3. James A. Van AllenSeptember 7, 1914 – August 9, 2006
  4. Raymond Davis Jr. (this page)October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006
  5. Renato DulbeccoFebruary 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012
  6. Vladimir ChelomeyJune 30, 1914 – December 8, 1984

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