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Clinton Davisson 2026-10-18
A physicist whose route into research included a telephone-company job when he could not afford to continue at Chicago. He later worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, retiring in 1946 after 29 years, and taught physics at Virginia in 1947–1949.[ref]
Clinton Davisson – Biographical. Biography: financial interruption, laboratory employment and visiting professorship
The Davisson–Germer experiment connects that industrial-laboratory work to electron diffraction and matter waves.
Portrait of Clinton Davisson
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 2026-10-18
Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson shared the award equally for demonstrating electron diffraction by crystals.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official summary: laureates, prize shares and motivation
The Davisson–Germer experiment and Thomson electron transmission diffraction experiment connect different apparatus geometries to the matter waves.