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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), in which electrons, scattered by the surface of a crystal of nickel metal, displayed a diffraction pattern.
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.
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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.
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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.
May 12, 2006 · 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. The work began as a result of a laboratory accident and ultimately earned Davisson a Nobel Prize.
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. Richard K. Gehrenbeck. Physics Today 31 (1), 34–41 (1978);
In 1925, Davisson and his Bell Labs partner Lester Germer began a series of experiments that would, within two years, confirm de Broglie's hypothesis of the wave nature of matter. In recognition of this important discovery, APS honored the location of the experiment as part of its Historic Sites Initiative.
