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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.
After it had been proven that his experiment was sound, Davis shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to neutrino physics with Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan, who worked on the Kamiokande and the Super Kamiokande (the prize was also shared with Riccardo Giacconi for his contributions to x-ray astronomy).
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.
Seventy-seven Nobel laureates are urging the Senate to vote down Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the nation’s top health agency, pointing to his views against vaccines ...
Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel laureate in Physics, 2001; John L. Hall, Nobel laureate in Physics, 2005; Paul Komor, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007 [1] Herbert Kroemer, Nobel laureate in Physics, 2000; Carl Wieman, Nobel laureate in Physics, 2001; David J. Wineland, Nobel laureate in Physics, 2012; Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006
More than 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was honored by the Nobel Committee for his nonviolent campaign against racism in the United States. "I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham ...
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi paid tribute to the determination of the Iranian people to “dismantle” the “despotism and obstruction” of the Islamic Republic’s regime in ...
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former vice president of the United States Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.