In which city did Davisson primarily conduct his research?
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Davisson primarily conducted his research in New York City. He worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, which is just across the Hudson River from New York City. Davisson's research on electron diffraction was groundbreaking and helped to establish the wave-particle duality of matter.
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