In honor of Nobel Prize season, here’s a picture of my uncle accepting the award in astrophysics.

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image showing In honor of Nobel Prize season, here’s a picture of my uncle accepting the award in astrophysics.

2fixyou on October 5th, 2022 at 20:33 UTC »

Raymond Davis Jr.

Awarded in 2002

His efforts resulted in identifying neutrinos, which were called the ghost particles. At the time, he was the oldest living recipient, and unfortunately coping with Alzheimer’s

Edited to add name because I’m a dufus

Kinkan83 on October 5th, 2022 at 20:37 UTC »

Your uncle was Raymond Davis Jr? That's awesome. Hope you were able to spend time with them

TheGreek1 on October 6th, 2022 at 00:50 UTC »

Nice!! My neighbor also got one for inventing PCR. He passed away right before COVID…