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Raymond Davis Jr.
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Raymond Davis Jr.

1914 – 2006 · aged 92

American scientist (1914-2006)

Born
14 Oct 1914 · Washington, D.C.
Died
31 May 2006 · New York City

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 14 Oct 1914BornBorn in Washington, D.C.
  2. 1978AwardComstock Prize in Physics
  3. 1979AwardGlenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
  4. 1988AwardTom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
  5. 1992AwardPanofsky Prize
  6. 1994AwardBeatrice M. Tinsley Prize
  7. 1996AwardGeorge Ellery Hale Prize
  8. 2000AwardWolf Prize in Physics
  9. 2001AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 2002AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  11. 2003AwardBenjamin Franklin Medal
  12. 2003AwardEnrico Fermi Award
  13. 31 May 2006DiedDied in New York City

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1914 – 2006).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Raymond Davis Jr., CC BY-SA 4.0

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