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Clinton Davisson

1881 - 1958

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Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clinton Davisson is the 109th most popular physicist (down from 88th in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from United States (down from 304th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Physicist.

Clinton Davisson was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clinton Davisson ranks 109 out of 851. Before him are Thomas Young, Peter Debye, Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, and Dennis Gabor. After him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Heinrich Rohrer, and Walther Bothe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Clinton Davisson ranks 17. Before him are Anna Pavlova, Enver Pasha, William Boeing, Kliment Voroshilov, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Hans Kelsen. After him are Guccio Gucci, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Hermann Staudinger, Ludwig von Mises, Hans Fischer, and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. Among people deceased in 1958, Clinton Davisson ranks 10. Before him are Imre Nagy, Roger Martin du Gard, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Kurt Alder, Tyrone Power, and Faisal II of Iraq. After him are Ernest Lawrence, John B. Watson, Abul Kalam Azad, Maurice de Vlaminck, Milutin Milanković, and Rudolf von Laban.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 346 out of 20,380. Before him are Mel Gibson (1956), Henry Clay (1777), John Cage (1912), Tom Petty (1950), Zachary Taylor (1784), and John Howard Northrop (1891). After him are Golden State Killer (1945), Jay Leno (1950), Allen Dulles (1893), Buzz Aldrin (1930), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Maria Branyas (1907).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 14. Before him are Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), and Donald A. Glaser (1926). After him are Ernest Lawrence (1901), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), and Arthur Compton (1892).

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