In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 76
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Clinton Davisson
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."
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science · American physicist (1881–1958) · physicist · university teacher · also Clinton Davisson, Clinton Joseph Davisson, C. J. Davisson, Clinton J. Davisson, C. Davisson, Davisson
Born 22 October 1881 · Died 1 February 1958 · Q133222
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1958· 2 entries
Died 1958-02-01.
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1939).
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1937).
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1935· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1935).
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1931· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1931).
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1928).
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1927· 1 entry
Davisson and his Bell Labs colleague, Lester Germer, performed an experiment showing that electrons were diffracted at the surface of a crystal of nickel
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1911· 2 entries
With a thesis titled On The Thermal Emission of Positive Ions From Alkaline Earth Salts
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And had four children: Owen; James; Richard, who became a physicist; and Elizabeth
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1902· 1 entry
And entered the University of Chicago on scholarship
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1881· 2 entries
Born 1881-10-22.
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In Bloomington, Illinois, the son of Joseph Davisson, an artisan from Ohio, and Mary Calvert, a schoolteacher from Pennsylvania
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