Clinton Davisson - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1937
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Clinton Davisson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1937
for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
Together with: George Paget Thomson
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
10/22/1881
place of birth
Bloomington
date of death
2/1/1958
place of death
Charlottesville
Lived
76 years
educated at
  • Princeton University
    • doctoral advisor: Owen Willans Richardson
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
  • Bloomington High School
  • University of Chicago
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1929
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • Princeton University
  • University of Virginia
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Lester Germer
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