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Clinton Davisson

1881 - 1958

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Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clinton Davisson has received more than 193,568 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Clinton Davisson is the 88th most popular physicist (down from 85th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from United States (up from 329th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Physicist.

Clinton Davisson was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clinton Davisson ranks 88 out of 851. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, John Bardeen, Hans Bethe, Victor Francis Hess, Albert A. Michelson, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After him are Carl Zeiss, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Ernst Ruska, Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, and Emil Lenz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Clinton Davisson ranks 17. Before him are Hans Kelsen, Enver Pasha, Ludwig von Mises, Kliment Voroshilov, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Roger Martin du Gard. After him are Guccio Gucci, Fernand Léger, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Sveinn Björnsson, Alexei Rykov, and Alcide De Gasperi. Among people deceased in 1958, Clinton Davisson ranks 9. Before him are Imre Nagy, Rosalind Franklin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, John B. Watson, Ernest Lawrence, and Roger Martin du Gard. After him are Kurt Alder, Faisal II of Iraq, Milutin Milanković, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rudolf von Laban, and Maurice de Vlaminck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 304 out of 20,380. Before him are John Wayne Gacy (1942), John Bardeen (1908), Sandra Bullock (1964), Miles Davis (1926), Coen brothers (null), and Burt Lancaster (1913). After him are Oliver Hardy (1892), David Woodard (1964), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Billy the Kid (1859), B.B. King (1925), and Norbert Wiener (1894).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 9. Before him are Barry Barish (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), and John Bardeen (1908). After him are Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Joseph Henry (1797), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937).

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