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Raymond Davis Jr.

1914 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Davis Jr. is the 17th most popular chemist (up from 129th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from United States (up from 801st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Chemist.

Raymond Davis Jr. is most famous for the Davis Incident, in which he shot two men in Lahore, Pakistan, and was imprisoned for two years before being released in 2011.

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Among chemists, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 17 out of 602. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Svante Arrhenius, John Stith Pemberton, Edwin McMillan, and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. After him are August Kekulé, William Ramsay, Adolf Windaus, Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, and John Macleod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 3. Before him are Yuri Andropov, and Louis de Funès. After him are Hedy Lamarr, Tove Jansson, Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Julio Cortázar. Among people deceased in 2006, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 7. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Ferenc Puskás, Saparmurat Niyazov, Slobodan Milošević, Augusto Pinochet, and Naguib Mahfouz. After him are Gerald Ford, Stanisław Lem, Milton Friedman, Alfredo Stroessner, Owen Chamberlain, and James Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 120 out of 20,380. Before him are Samuel Morse (1791), Ezra Pound (1885), Frank Sinatra (1915), Charles Manson (1934), Grace Hopper (1906), and Herbert A. Simon (1916). After him are Nicolas Cage (1964), Debbie Reynolds (1932), Dr. Seuss (1904), Paul Newman (1925), Woodrow Wilson (1856), and Gerald Ford (1913).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 3. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), and Edwin McMillan (1907). After him are George Washington Carver (1864), John Fenn (1917), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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