When was Clinton Davisson born?
October 22, 1881
July 4, 1899
January 15, 1877
March 3, 1885
Answer
Clinton Davisson was born on October 22, 1881. He was an American physicist who, along with Lester Germer, conducted the Davisson-Germer experiment in 1927. This experiment provided strong evidence for the wave-particle duality of matter, which is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. Davisson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his work on electron diffraction.
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