Dr. Eric 'Davis' Earle (died 24 December 2016) was a Canadian

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. A

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, he worked at

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and helped organize Sudbury Neutrino Observatory as part of the project team whose director,

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, won the 2015

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.Pennell, Josh. ''The Telegram'' (St John's, Nfld). 2015-10-2
Newfoundlander helps win Nobel Prize for physics
accessed: 25 November 2015]. He received an honorary doctor of science degree from

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in 2004

Early life

Davis was son of Mildred and Guy Earle, born November 26, 1937, and raised in Carbonear,

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. His father was the final captain of the

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and part-owner of the Earle Freighting Service. Davis said “My father tried to get me to join him in the codfish business in Carbonear, but I didn’t want to go work with my father at 20. I thought I needed to see a bit of Canada,” a goal that stuck with him throughout his life. Davis got his bachelor's of science degree at Memorial University, a master's degree at the University of British Columbia. In 1959 he became a Rhodes Scholar and completed his doctorate studies at Oxford in 1964.

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