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Lester Germer

1896 - 1971

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Lester Halbert Germer (October 10, 1896 – October 3, 1971) was an American physicist. With Clinton Davisson, he proved the wave-particle duality of matter in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which was important to the development of the electron microscope. These studies supported the theoretical work of De Broglie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lester Germer has received more than 66,310 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lester Germer is the 512th most popular physicist (up from 521st in 2019), the 4,101st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,625th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lester Germer ranks 512 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Poleni, Gustave Trouvé, Andrei Linde, Theodore Hall, Anatoly Alexandrov, and William Edward Ayrton. After him are Alan Sokal, John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Max Wien, and Abraham Pais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Lester Germer ranks 141. Before him are Maurice De Waele, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Ira Gershwin, Hubert Lanz, Teinosuke Kinugasa, and Aimo Lahti. After him are Evgeny Schwartz, Rafael Franco, Vasily Gordov, Alberto Demicheli, Nobuko Yoshiya, and Carlos P. Garcia. Among people deceased in 1971, Lester Germer ranks 108. Before him are Péter Szondi, Viliam Široký, Fritz von Opel, Antonio Bacci, Naoya Shiga, and Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. After him are Gaito Gazdanov, Ignazio Giunti, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Henri Tomasi, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lester Germer ranks 4,101 out of 20,380. Before him are Ginger Lynn (1962), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Gus Hall (1910), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), and Lynne Cheney (1941). After him are David Zucker (1947), Clark Gregg (1962), Halton Arp (1927), Chita Rivera (1933), Sarah Clarke (1972), and Warren Oates (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Lester Germer ranks 103. Before him are Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Edwin H. Land (1909), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Theodore Hall (1925). After him are Alan Sokal (1955), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Edward Condon (1902), Bryce DeWitt (1923), and Eric Allin Cornell (1961).

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