Clinton Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Demonstrated that electrons bend like light waves when shot at crystals—a 1937 Nobel Prize moment that helped prove quantum mechanics wasn't just theory. American physicist who made the invisible visible.
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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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