Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."
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- Born in
- Bloomington
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityUniversity of ChicagoBloomington High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Hughes Medal🏆 Comstock Prize in Physics🏆 Elliott Cresson Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Owen Willans Richardson
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Lester Germer
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1881
Born
Birth1958
Died
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