# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clinton-davisson
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:50:35.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clinton-davisson"
name: "Clinton Davisson"
slug: "clinton-davisson"
description: "He proved electrons behave like waves — a result so fundamental it rewrote the quantum rulebook and earned him a Nobel alongside the son of the man who discovered the electron itself."
tagline: "American physicist (1881-1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Clinton_Davisson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-10-22"
deathDate: "1958-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.55
  momentum:             0.303030303030303
  historical:           23.37538133333334
  currentAttention:     1.683501683501683
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Scientists"
    slug: "scientists"
  - name: "Scientist"
    slug: "scientist"
  - name: "Physics"
    slug: "physics"
  - name: "United States"
    slug: "united-states"
  - name: "Americas"
    slug: "americas"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Clinton%20Davisson"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کلینتون دیویسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinton_Davisson"
    title: "Klinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Клінтан Джозеф Дэвісан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BD"
    title: "Клинтън Дейвисън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "ক্লিনটন জোসেফ ডেভিসন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Joseph Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DA%B5%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%86"
    title: "کڵینتن داڤیسۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Joseph Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%86_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Κλίντον Τζόζεφ Ντέιβισον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Joseph Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کلینتون دیویسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Joseph Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Joseph Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Clinton Davisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clinton_Davisson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/79bcb5a9-bcf9-4d28-82d9-f626da5bf1d8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كلنتون دافيسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كلنتون دافيسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Clinton Joseph Davisson was born October 22, 1881, and spent his career as an American experimental physicist working in a field that would soon turn everything classical physics assumed upside down. In 1927, he and his colleagues observed electrons diffracting through crystals — behaving not as particles but as waves, exactly as the new quantum theory predicted. The discovery was profound enough to earn him the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with George Paget Thomson, whose father J.J. Thomson had discovered the electron as a particle four decades earlier. Davisson died February 1, 1958, having handed physics one of its strangest confirmations.