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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. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same ...
Clinton Joseph Davisson was born at Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.A., October 22, 1881, son of Joseph Davisson, an artisan, native of Ohio, descendant of early Dutch and French settlers of Virginia, Union veteran of the American Civil War, and Mary Calvert, a school-teacher, native of Pennsylvania, of English and Scotch parentage.
Clinton Joseph Davisson (born Oct. 22, 1881, Bloomington, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 1, 1958, Charlottesville, Va.) 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 particles.
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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. Prize motivation: “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”.
Clinton Joseph Davisson was born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA on October 22, 1881, just four days before the notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. His father was Joseph Davisson, a housepainter who had once fought in the Union Army. His mother, Mary Calvert, was a school teacher. Clinton had a younger sister Carrie, born ...
May 23, 2018 · Davisson, Clinton Joseph. ( b. Bloomington, Illinois, 22 October 1881; d. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1 February 1958) physics. Davisson’s father, Joseph, was a contract painter and his mother, Mary Calvert Davisson, a school-teacher. After graduating from Bloomington High School in 1902, Davisson entered the University of Chicago.
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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"
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