(left to right): Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958) and Lester Halbert Germer (1896-1971)

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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0898

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Summary

Physicists Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958) (at left) and Lester Halbert Germer (1896-1971) (at right), shown here with a vacuum tube used in their electron diffraction experiments, worked at Bell Laboratories. Davisson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1937, jointly with George Paget Thomson [SIA Digital No. 2009-4148] for their independent discovery of the wave nature of electrons.

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  • Davisson, Clinton Joseph 1881-1958
  • Germer, Lester Halbert 1896-1971
  • Bell Telephone Laboratories

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0898

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  • Nobel Prizes
  • Physics
  • Electrons

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SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0898]

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