Ray Davis, neutrino astrophysics pioneer, dies at 91

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Pioneering physical chemist and physics Nobel laureate Ray Davis has died at his home in New York. Davis, who spent most of his career at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for his contributions to neutrino astrophysics. He passed away on Wednesday aged 91 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.

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Thanks Davis. It's always sad when someone who contributed to society as he did dies.
 
neutrino said:
shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for his contributions to neutrino astrophysics

:cry: (Sob) He was a good man. You must have been particularly attached to him neutrino . Thanks Davis .