What prestigious university did Davisson conduct significant research at?
MIT
Stanford University
Carnegie Mellon
Bell Labs
Answer
Bell Labs was not a university but a research and development laboratory owned by AT&T. Clinton Davisson conducted significant research at Bell Labs, where he made groundbreaking discoveries in electron diffraction and the wave-particle duality of matter. His work, along with that of his colleague Lester Germer, confirmed the de Broglie hypothesis and earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937.
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