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Clinton Davisson
* 1881 in Bloomington, Illinois
+ 1958 in Charlottesville, Virginia
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Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American physicist
who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics (1937) for his discovery of electron diffraction
in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment.
Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson,
who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same time as Davisson.
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