RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.
B.S. 1937, M.S. 1940
CHEMICAL & LIFE SCIENCES
INDUCTION JUNE 4, 2005

Raymond Davis served with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and spent two years in private industry before joining the Brookhaven National Laboratories in 1948. He built the first neutrino detector in 1963 and began the research that earned him a 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. Retiring from Brookhaven after 36 years, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as a research professor of physics and astronomy. Davis, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the 2000 Wolf Prize in Physics and the 2001 National Medal of Science.

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