In what year did Clinton Davisson win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
1937
1941
1929
1955
Answer
Clinton Davisson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals. This discovery confirmed the wave-particle duality of matter, a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. Davisson's work, along with that of George Paget Thomson, provided experimental evidence for the wave-like behavior of electrons, which had previously been thought of as solely particles.
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