The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937
Awarded on: 1937-11-11
"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
Affiliations:
- Bell Telephone Laboratories – New York, NY, USA
Clinton Joseph Davisson
Born: 1881-10-22 in Bloomington, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American experimental physicist (1881–1958)
Biography
Clinton Joseph Davisson 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."