Clinton Davisson
= Clinton Davisson
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= Clinton Joseph Davisson
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= Clinton J. Davisson
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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.<Clinton Davisson – Biographical>[Biography: financial interruption, laboratory employment and visiting professorship]{ref} The <Davisson–Germer experiment> connects that industrial-laboratory work to <electron diffraction> and <matter waves>.
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