1881 - 1958
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 176,745 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Clinton Davisson is the 85th most popular physicist (up from 105th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from United States (up from 448th in 2019) and the 6th 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, Clinton Davisson ranks 85 out of 717. Before him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Albert A. Michelson, Ernst Ruska, Johannes Stark, Carl David Anderson, and Barry Barish. After him are Eugene Wigner, John Bardeen, Arnold Sommerfeld, Peter Higgs, Paul Langevin, and Arthur Compton.
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 79
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 80
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 81
1874 - 1957
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 82
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 83
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 84
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 85
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 86
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 87
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 88
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 89
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 90
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 91
Among people born in 1881, Clinton Davisson ranks 16. Before him are Enver Pasha, Hans Kelsen, Ludwig von Mises, Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. After him are Walther von Brauchitsch, Fernand Léger, Alexei Rykov, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Guccio Gucci, and Ettore Bugatti. Among people deceased in 1958, Clinton Davisson ranks 8. Before him are Imre Nagy, John B. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, and Roger Martin du Gard. After him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Faisal II of Iraq, Kurt Alder, Ernest Lawrence, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.
1881 - 1922
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 10
1881 - 1973
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 11
1881 - 1973
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 12
1881 - 1970
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 13
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 14
1881 - 1954
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 15
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 16
1881 - 1948
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 17
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 18
1881 - 1938
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 19
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 20
1881 - 1953
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 21
1881 - 1947
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 22
1896 - 1958
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 2
1878 - 1958
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 3
1920 - 1958
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 4
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 5
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 6
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 7
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 8
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 9
1935 - 1958
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 10
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 12
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 13
1881 - 1958
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 14
Among people born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 329 out of 18,182. Before him are Carl David Anderson (1905), O. Henry (1862), Barry Barish (1936), O. J. Simpson (1947), Anton LaVey (1930), and Lewis H. Morgan (1818). After him are Michael Porter (1947), Man Ray (1890), Herman Hollerith (1860), Sandra Bullock (1964), John Bardeen (1908), and Bill Murray (1950).
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 323
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 324
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 325
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 326
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 327
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 328
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 329
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 330
1890 - 1976
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 331
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 332
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 333
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 334
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 335
Among physicists born in United States, Clinton Davisson ranks 6. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), and Barry Barish (1936). After him are John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), Kip Thorne (1940), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921).
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 1
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 2
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 3
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 5
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12