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Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson is an American physicist who won the Physics Prize in 1937 for discovering electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment. Davisson shares the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at the same time as Davisson.
BornOctober 22, 1881, Bloomington, Illinois, USA
DiedFebruary 01, 1958, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
NationalityUnited States
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsPrinceton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Bell Labs
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (B.S, 1908), Princeton University (Ph.D, 1911)
Known forElectron diffraction
InfluencedJoseph A. Becker, Mervin Kelly, William Shockley
Notable awardsComstock Prize in Physics (1928), Elliott Cresson Medal (1931), Hughes Medal (1935), Nobel Prize in Physics (1937)
SpouseCharlotte Davisson

About Clinton Davisson

Physicist Clinton Davisson was born on October 22, 1881 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States (He dies at the age of 76, on February 1, 1958).

American physicist who discovered electron diffraction and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937.

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Clinton Davisson before becoming famous

Clinton Davisson was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1881 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He taught at Princeton after completing his undergraduate degree while also working on his doctoral thesis there.

Achievement of Clinton Davisson

In 1919, he began working with electrons to investigate the hypothesis that they exist both in wave form and as particles, which is one of quantum mechanics' core assumptions.

Clinton Davisson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and his father, Joseph Davisson, was a Civil War veteran and descendent of early Dutch and French settlers in Virginia.

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His work paved the way for the early study of quantum mechanics, which was popularized by Physicist Erwin Schrodinger's famous cat paradigm.

Clinton Davisson Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Clinton Davisson updated on March 20 2023.