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October 22, 1881
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February 1, 1958
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Clinton Joseph Davisson
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00000000799227020
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OL6359811A0
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411109690
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Electron diffraction
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Clinton Davisson was an American physicist born on October 22, 1881, in Bloomington, Illinois. He held citizenship in the United States. Davisson was educated at the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Illinois.
His academic discipline was in physics, and he is known for his work in electron diffraction, a discovery for which he was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics. His doctoral advisor was Owen Willans Richardson, and Lester Germer was one of his doctoral students.
Davisson was the father of Richard Davisson. He passed away on February 1, 1958, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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