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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...
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    The Davisson–Germer experiment was a 1923–1927 experiment by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Western Electric (later Bell Labs), in which electrons...
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  • Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29, 1922 – June 15, 2004) was an American physicist. Davisson was the son of Clinton Davisson, a Nobel laureate,...
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    1971) was an American physicist. With Clinton Davisson, he proved the wave-particle duality of matter in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which was important...
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  • work in atomic physics or surface physics". The prize is named after Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer, who first measured electron diffraction, and as...
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  • Davisson may refer to: Ananias Davisson (1780–1857), American singing school teacher Clinton Davisson (1881–1958), American physicist Kyle Davisson (born...
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    Richardson married the American physicist (and 1937 Nobel laureate) Clinton Davisson, who was Richardson's PhD student at Princeton. After Lilian's death...
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  • Born cited experimental data from Clinton Davisson in 1923. It happened that Davisson also attended that talk. Davisson returned to his lab in the US to...
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  • Rutherford (1871–1937) Lise Meitner (1878–1968) Max von Laue (1879–1960) Clinton Davisson (1881–1958) Hans Geiger (1882–1945) C. V. Raman (1888–1970) William...
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    of the electron. The prize was shared with the American physicist Clinton Davisson who had made the same discovery independently. Whereas Thomson’s father...
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    the southwest of the crater midpoint. This crater is named after Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881–1958) a US physicist who in 1927 made the first experimental...
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    being demonstrated at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson for the...
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  • through physical apertures gave the movie shown. In 1927 at Bell Labs, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired slow-moving electrons at a crystalline nickel...
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    Hallett Dale; Otto Loewi Eugene O'Neill Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1937 Clinton Davisson; George Paget Thomson Norman Haworth; Paul Karrer Albert Szent-Györgyi...
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    on hiring solid-state physicists. Shockley joined a group headed by Clinton Davisson in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Executives at Bell Labs had theorized that...
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    Anderson (1905–1991) American "for his discovery of the positron" 1937 Clinton Davisson (1881–1958) American "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction...
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    happens with heavier particles. For example, the electrons used by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in 1927, accelerated by 54 V, had a wavelength of...
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  • Electron diffraction – Clinton Davisson won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment...
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  • German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1888) February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) February 6 – Manchester...
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    it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements" 1937 Clinton Davisson Bloomington, Illinois, USA "for their experimental discovery of the...
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    hypothesis was confirmed experimentally at Bell Labs in 1927, when Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired low-energy electrons at a crystalline nickel...
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  • Gerlach Confirmation Angular momentum quantization 1923 Davisson–Germer experiment Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer Confirmation De Broglie hypothesis...
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  • 1943 Ernest Lawrence, Physics, 1939 Pearl S. Buck, Literature, 1938 Clinton Davisson, Physics, 1937 Eugene O'Neill, Literature, 1936 Carl Anderson, Physics...
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  • illustrator Brandon Hughes (2004) — Philadelphia Eagles football player Clinton Davisson, recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics. Greg Engel, NFL player...
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  • a motorcycle accident and is rarely mentioned.) At Bell Labs, Clinton Joseph Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer reflected an electron beam from a nickel...
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  • of Paris Raymond Davis Jr. Physics 2002 University of Pennsylvania Clinton Davisson Physics 1937 Bell Labs Angus Deaton Economics 2015 Princeton University...
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  • Richardson (died 1953), British mathematical physicist. October 22 – Clinton Davisson (died 1958), American physicist. November 9 – Margaret Reed Lewis (died...
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  • connecting theoretical models to experiment. In 1927 at Bell Labs, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired slow-moving electrons at a crystalline nickel...
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  • 1946) Raymond Davis, Jr. – United States (1914–2006) Nobel laureate Clinton Davisson – United States (1881–1958) Nobel laureate Peter Debije – Netherlands...
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  • impressed Shannon, as many of its ideas complemented his own. Clinton Davisson Davisson and Lester Germer performed an experiment showing that electrons...
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