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The Davisson–Germer experiment was a 1923-27 experiment by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Western Electric (later Bell Labs), [1] [2] [3] in which electrons, scattered by the surface of a crystal of nickel metal, displayed a diffraction pattern. This confirmed the hypothesis, advanced by Louis de Broglie in 1924, of wave-particle ...
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. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same ...
Lester Halbert Germer (born Oct. 10, 1896, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Oct. 3, 1971, Gardiner, N.Y.) was an American physicist who, with his colleague Clinton Joseph Davisson, conducted an experiment (1927) that first demonstrated the wave properties of the electron. This experiment confirmed the hypothesis of Louis-Victor de Broglie, a founder ...
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Feb 20, 2022 · American physicists Clinton J. Davisson and Lester H. Germer in 1925 and, independently, British physicist G. P. Thomson (son of J. J. Thomson, discoverer of the electron) in 1926 scattered electrons from crystals and found diffraction patterns.
Clinton Davisson. Lester Halbert Germer (October 10, 1896 – October 3, 1971) was an American physicist. [1] With Clinton Davisson, he proved the wave-particle duality of matter in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which was important to the development of the electron microscope. These studies supported the theoretical work of De Broglie.
Electron diffraction: fifty years ago. A look back at the experiment that established the wave nature of the electron, at the events that led up to the discovery, and at the principal investigators, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer. An article that appeared in the December 1927 issue of Physical Review, “Diffraction of Electrons by a ...
May 12, 2006 · A 1927 paper in the Physical Review demonstrated that particles of matter can act like waves, just as light waves sometimes behave like particles. Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, then in New York, found that electrons scatter from a crystal in the same way that x rays do.
