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Davisson

(ˈdeɪvɪsən)
n
(Biography) Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
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An American physicist, Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958), however, was studying the reflection of electrons from a metallic nickel target enclosed in a vacuum tube.
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