Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond Davis Jr. was an American scientist who lived from 1914 to 2006, who led the Homestake experiment from the 1960s to the 1980s, the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun. After service in the Second World War, he worked at Monsanto own Mound Laboratory before joining Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1948, where he spent his career investigating neutrino detection, later holding a position at the University of Pennsylvania and retiring from Brookhaven in 1984. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, shared with Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi, along with the National Medal of Science in 2001 and the Enrico Fermi Award in 2003. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2000.