Nobel Prize in Physics 1937
Nobel Prize in Physics 1937
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Clinton Joseph Davisson
Prize share: 1/2
Photo: Bassano, Ltd. Nobel Foundation archive
George Paget Thomson
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 was awarded jointly to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
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