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Clinton Davisson
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American physicist (1881-1958)
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Clinton Davisson was born on October 22, 1881, and died on February 1, 1958. He was recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Davisson received one Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1937
“for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bloomington
- Place of death
- Charlottesville
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Owen Willans Richardson
- Student of
- Owen Willans Richardson
- Doctoral student
- Lester Germer
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Clinton Davisson.jpg
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Clinton Davisson
- date of birth
- 1881-10-22
- date of death
- 1958-02-01
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Clinton Joseph Davisson
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- described at URL
- www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=term&d=14&t=61351
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) 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."
Biography
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