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Clinton Davisson
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<p>Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> who shared the 1937 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> with <a href="/facts/George_Paget_Thomson/Mmk3oA0A">George Paget Thomson</a> "for their experimental discovery of the <a href="/facts/Diffraction/Mk80xXHT">diffraction</a> of <a href="/facts/Electron/L0KBo5cW">electrons</a> by <a href="/facts/Crystal/e2R2mk3E">crystals</a>". </p>