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Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment.
Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both as waves and as.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 was awarded jointly to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Clinton Joseph Davisson. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937. Born: 22 October 1881, Bloomington, IL, USA. Died: 1 February 1958, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, NY, USA.
Clinton Davisson discovered electron diffraction, for which he was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics. His discovery confirmed the de Broglie hypothesis that particles can behave as waves.
CLINTON J. DAVISSON. The discovery of electron waves. Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1937. That streams of electrons possess the properties of beams of waves was dis-covered early in 1927 in a large industrial laboratory in the midst of a great city, and in a small university laboratory overlooking a cold and desolate sea.
Clinton Davisson was a US physicist who discovered electron diffraction by crystals with George Paget Thomson. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, University of Virginia, and received several awards and honorary degrees.
