Clinton Davisson
October 22, 1881 –February 1, 1958
Physicist, University teacher
Lived 76 years
- Born in
- Bloomington
- Passed away in
- Charlottesville
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."
Awards: Comstock Prize in Physics, Elliott Cresson Medal, Hughes Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon, Fellow of the American Physical Society, honorary doctor of Purdue University, honorary doctorate from Princeton University Education: University of Chicago, Princeton University, Bloomington High School
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