What is Raymond Davis Jr.?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Raymond Davis, Jr. |image =Raymond Davis, Jr 2001.jpg |caption = Davis in 2001 |birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1914|10|14}} |birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], USA |death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2006|05|31|1914|10|14}}<ref name=obit1>{{cite news |author=Kenneth Chang |title=Raymond Davis Jr., Nobelist Who Caught Neutrinos, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/nyregion/02davis.html |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 2006 |accessdate=2007-10-10}}</ref> |death_place = [[Blue Point, New York]], USA |nationality = United States |fields = [[Chemistry]], [[physics]] |work_institutions = [[Monsanto]]<br>[[University of Pennsylvania]] |alma_mater = [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]]<br>[[Yale University]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[Neutrinos]] |influences = |influenced = |prizes = {{no wrap|[[Comstock Prize in Physics]] (1978)<br>[[Tom W. Bonner Prize]] (1988)<br>[[Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize]] (1994)<br>[[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (2000)<br>[[National Medal of Science]] (2001)<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2002)<br>[[Enrico Fermi Award]] (2003)}} |footnotes = }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Raymond (Ray) Davis, Jr.''' (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an [[Americans|American]] [[chemist]] and [[physicist]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lande, Kenneth|title=Obituary: Raymond Davis Jr|journal=Physics Today|date=October 2006|volume=59|issue=10|pages=78–80|url=http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/59/10/10.1063/1.2387099|doi=10.1063/1.2387099|bibcode = 2006PhT....59j..78L }}</ref> He was awarded the prize for the detection of [[cosmic ray|cosmic]] [[neutrino]]s, looking at the [[solar neutrino problem]] in the [[Homestake Experiment]]. He was 88 years old when awarded the prize. Davis, Jr. died in [[Blue Point, Ne