Clinton Davisson
Physicist, Academic
1881 – 1958
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Who was Clinton Davisson?
Clinton Joseph Davisson, 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 time as Davisson.
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1881
Bloomington - Also known as
- 克林顿·戴维孙
- Дэвиссон, Клинтон Джозеф
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Princeton University
- Bloomington High School
- Employment
- Bell Labs
(1917 - 1946)
- Bell Labs
- Died
- Feb 1, 1958
Charlottesville
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on July 23, 2013
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