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Clinton Joseph Davisson
1 61701? 309? Bloomington(BLTN), McLean County, IL
1881(10/22) - 1958(02/01)
From wikipedia "Upon the recommendation of Robert A. Millikan, in 1905 Davisson was hired by Princeton University as Instructor of Physics... In 1927, while working for Bell Labs, Davisson and Lester Germer performed an experiment showing that electrons were diffracted at the surface of a crystal of nickel."

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