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clinton davisson wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography 2 davisson germer experiment 3 family 4 recognition toggle recognition subsection 4 1 awards 4 2 memberships 5 commemoration 6 references 7 external links toggle the table of contents clinton davisson 79 languages العربية مصرى azərbaycanca تۆرکجه беларуская български বাংলা bosanski català کوردی čeština dansk deutsch ελληνικά esperanto español eesti euskara فارسی suomi français gaeilge galego 客家語 hak kâ ngî עברית हिन्दी hrvatski kreyòl ayisyen magyar հայերեն bahasa indonesia ilokano ido italiano 日本語 ქართული қазақша 한국어 kurdî latina lietuvių latviešu македонски മലയാളം монгол मराठी bahasa melayu مازِرونی नेपाल भाषा nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål occitan polski piemontèis پنجابی português română русский संस्कृतम् scots srpskohrvatski српскохрватски slovenčina slovenščina српски srpski svenska kiswahili தமிழ் türkçe татарча tatarça українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча tiếng việt 吴语 მარგალური yorùbá 閩南語 bân lâm gí 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikisource wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american physicist 1881 1958 clinton davisson davisson in 1937 born clinton joseph davisson 1881 10 22 october 22 1881 bloomington illinois u s died february 1 1958 1958 02 01 aged 76 charlottesville virginia u s education university of chicago bs princeton university phd known for davisson germer experiment spouse charlotte sara richardson m 1911 children 4 including richard awards comstock prize in physics 1928 elliott cresson medal 1931 hughes medal 1935 nobel prize in physics 1937 scientific career fields physics workplaces carnegie institute of technology western electric bell labs doctoral advisor owen richardson other academic advisors robert millikan 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 1 biography edit clinton joseph davisson was born on october 22 1881 in bloomington illinois the son of mary née calvert and joseph davisson his father was an artisan from ohio while his mother was a schoolteacher from pennsylvania they were of dutch french and english scotch descent respectively 2 davisson graduated from bloomington high school in 1902 and entered the university of chicago on scholarship upon the recommendation of robert millikan he was hired by princeton university in 1905 as an instructor in physics he completed the requirements for a bachelor of science from chicago in 1908 mainly by working in the summers while teaching at princeton he did doctoral research under owen richardson gaining a doctor of philosophy in 1911 for a thesis titled on the thermal emission of positive ions from alkaline earth salts 2 after graduating davisson became an instructor in the department of physics at the carnegie institute of technology now carnegie mellon university in 1917 when the u s entered world war i he took up war related research in the engineering department of the western electric company 2 davisson continued to work at western electric until 1925 when he joined the technical staff of the newly founded bell telephone laboratories he retired from bell labs in 1946 the following year he accepted a visiting professorship at the university of virginia 3 davisson died on february 1 1958 in charlottesville virginia at the age of 76 2 4 5 davisson germer experiment edit main article davisson germer experiment davisson left and lester germer 1927 diffraction is a characteristic effect when a wave is incident upon an aperture or a grating and is closely associated with the meaning of wave motion itself in the 19th century diffraction was well established for light and for ripples on the surfaces of fluids in 1927 davisson and his bell labs colleague lester germer performed an experiment showing that electrons were diffracted at the surface of a crystal of nickel 6 this work confirmed the de broglie hypothesis that particles of matter have a wave like nature which is a central tenet of quantum mechanics in particular their observation of diffraction allowed the first measurement of a wavelength for electrons the measured wavelength λ displaystyle lambda agreed well with de broglie s equation λ h p displaystyle lambda h p where h displaystyle h is the planck constant and p displaystyle p is the electron s momentum 7 family edit while doing his graduate work at princeton davisson met his future wife charlotte sara richardson who was visiting her brother and his doctoral advisor professor owen richardson 8 charlotte was the sister in law of oswald veblen a prominent mathematician 9 clinton and charlotte d 1984 married in 1911 and had four children 10 owen james richard who became a physicist and elizabeth recognition edit awards edit year organization award citation ref 1928 national academy of sciences comstock prize in physics in recognition of his experimental work demonstrating that under certain conditions electrons behave as we would expect trains of waves to behave 11 1931 franklin institute elliott cresson medal for the scattering and diffraction of electrons by crystals 12 1935 royal society hughes medal for his research that resulted in the discovery of the physical existence of electron waves through long continued investigations on the reflection of electrons from the crystal planes of nickel and other metals 13 1937 royal swedish academy of sciences nobel prize in physics for their davisson and george paget thomson experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals 1 memberships edit year organization type ref 1929 american philosophical society member 14 1929 american academy of arts and sciences member 15 1929 national academy of sciences member 16 commemoration edit davisson a crater on the far side of the moon was named after him in 1970 17 references edit 1 2 nobel prize in physics 1937 nobelprize org archived from the original on september 14 2008 retrieved october 9 2008 1 2 3 4 clinton davisson biographical nobelprize org archived from the original on july 11 2025 retrieved august 19 2025 clinton joseph davisson american institute of physics archived from the original on september 11 2025 retrieved january 18 2026 o w owen willans richardson an inventory of his papers at the harry ransom center norman hrc utexas edu retrieved january 23 2016 history bill kemp historian archivist mclean county museum of october 27 2013 bloomington native won nobel prize in physics pantagraph com retrieved january 23 2016 cite web cs1 maint multiple names authors list link davisson c germer l h 1927 diffraction of electrons by a crystal of nickel physical review 30 6 705 740 bibcode 1927phrv 30 705d doi 10 1103 physrev 30 705 clinton davisson nobel prize lecture nobel foundation december 13 1937 retrieved september 17 2007 biographical memoirs pdf memoirs pdf st petersburg times google news archive search news google com retrieved november 3 2023 comstock prize in physics national academy of sciences archived from the original on december 29 2010 retrieved february 13 2011 clinton j davisson franklin institute archived from the original on march 31 2025 retrieved november 3 2025 hughes medal royal society retrieved october 31 2025 aps member history american philosophical society archived from the original on july 19 2023 retrieved july 19 2023 clinton joseph davisson american academy of arts and sciences archived from the original on july 19 2023 retrieved november 3 2025 clinton davisson national academy of sciences archived from the original on may 22 2025 retrieved november 3 2025 davisson gazetteer of planetary nomenclature usgs astrogeology research program retrieved july 28 2026 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to clinton davisson wikiquote has quotations related to clinton davisson biography portal clinton davisson on nobelprize org bloomington native won nobel prize in physics pantagraph bloomington illinois newspaper v t e laureates of the nobel prize in physics 1901 1925 1901 röntgen 1902 lorentz zeeman 1903 becquerel p curie m curie 1904 rayleigh 1905 lenard 1906 j j thomson 1907 michelson 1908 lippmann 1909 marconi braun 1910 van der waals 1911 wien 1912 dalén 1913 kamerlingh onnes 1914 laue 1915 w l bragg w h bragg 1916 1917 barkla 1918 planck 1919 stark 1920 guillaume 1921 einstein 1922 n bohr 1923 millikan 1924 m siegbahn 1925 franck hertz 1926 1950 1926 perrin 1927 compton c wilson 1928 o richardson 1929 de broglie 1930 raman 1931 1932 heisenberg 1933 schrödinger dirac 1934 1935 chadwick 1936 hess c d anderson 1937 davisson g p thomson 1938 fermi 1939 lawrence 1940 1941 1942 1943 stern 1944 rabi 1945 pauli 1946 bridgman 1947 appleton 1948 blackett 1949 yukawa 1950 powell 1951 1975 1951 cockcroft walton 1952 bloch purcell 1953 zernike 1954 born bothe 1955 lamb kusch 1956 shockley bardeen brattain 1957 c n yang t d lee 1958 cherenkov frank tamm 1959 segrè chamberlain 1960 glaser 1961 hofstadter mössbauer 1962 landau 1963 wigner goeppert mayer jensen 1964 townes basov prokhorov 1965 tomonaga schwinger feynman 1966 kastler 1967 bethe 1968 alvarez 1969 gell mann 1970 alfvén néel 1971 gabor 1972 bardeen cooper schrieffer 1973 esaki giaever josephson 1974 ryle hewish 1975 a bohr mottelson rainwater 1976 2000 1976 richter ting 1977 p w anderson mott van vleck 1978 kapitsa penzias r wilson 1979 glashow salam weinberg 1980 cronin fitch 1981 bloembergen schawlow k siegbahn 1982 k wilson 1983 chandrasekhar fowler 1984 rubbia van der meer 1985 von klitzing 1986 ruska binnig rohrer 1987 bednorz müller 1988 lederman schwartz steinberger 1989 ramsey dehmelt paul 1990 friedman kendall r taylor 1991 de gennes 1992 charpak 1993 hulse j taylor 1994 brockhouse shull 1995 perl reines 1996 d lee osheroff r richardson 1997 chu cohen tannoudji phillips 1998 laughlin störmer tsui 1999 t hooft veltman 2000 alferov kroemer kilby 2001 present 2001 cornell ketterle wieman 2002 davis koshiba giacconi 2003 abrikosov ginzburg leggett 2004 gross politzer wilczek 2005 glauber hall hänsch 2006 mather smoot 2007 fert grünberg 2008 nambu makoto kobayashi maskawa 2009 kao boyle smith 2010 geim novoselov 2011 perlmutter schmidt riess 2012 wineland haroche 2013 englert higgs 2014 akasaki amano nakamura 2015 kajita mcdonald 2016 thouless haldane kosterlitz 2017 weiss barish thorne 2018 ashkin mourou strickland 2019 peebles mayor queloz 2020 penrose genzel ghez 2021 parisi hasselmann manabe 2022 aspect clauser zeilinger 2023 agostini krausz l huillier 2024 hopfield hinton 2025 clarke devoret martinis v t e 1937 nobel prize laureates chemistry norman haworth great britain paul karrer switzerland literature 1937 roger martin du gard france peace the viscount cecil of chelwood great britain physics clinton davisson united states george paget thomson great britain physiology or medicine albert szent györgyi hungary nobel prize recipients 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 authority control databases international isni viaf gnd fast worldcat national united states france bnf data czech republic academics zbmath artists musicbrainz other idref open library snac yale lux 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