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With whom did Clinton Davisson share the Nobel Prize?

  • Niels Bohr

  • Erwin Schrödinger

  • George Paget Thomson

  • James Chadwick

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George Paget Thomson shared the Nobel Prize with Clinton Davisson for their independent discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals. This discovery confirmed the wave-particle duality of matter, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. Davisson and Thomson's experiments demonstrated that electrons, previously thought of as particles, also exhibit wave-like properties when interacting with matter.
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