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Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment.
Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both as waves and as.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 was awarded jointly to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
CLINTON J. DAVISSON. The discovery of electron waves. Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1937. That streams of electrons possess the properties of beams of waves was dis-covered early in 1927 in a large industrial laboratory in the midst of a great city, and in a small university laboratory overlooking a cold and desolate sea.
Clinton Joseph Davisson. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937. Born: 22 October 1881, Bloomington, IL, USA. Died: 1 February 1958, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
May 23, 2018 · physics. Davisson’s father, Joseph, was a contract painter and his mother, Mary Calvert Davisson, a school-teacher. After graduating from Bloomington High School in 1902, Davisson entered the University of Chicago. He interrupted his second year to teach physics briefly at Purdue University.
Clinton and Charlotte were married on August 4, 1911. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology in the summer of 1911, and the Davissons established their first home there in September, 1911. It was there that their first two children were born: Clinton Owen in 1912 and James Willans in 1914.
