Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958)

Awarded the Prize “for his experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.”

American physicist. Davisson was born in Bloomington, Illinois on October 22, 1881. He was educated at the University of Chicago at Princeton, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1911. He was an assistant in physics at Purdue University part-time instructor in physics at Princeton University. He joined the Bell Telephone Laboratory in 1917. From 1947 to 1949, he was Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. Davisson died at Charlottsville, Virginia on February 1, 1958.