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Clinton Davisson

Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

Born
October 22, 1881
Died
February 1, 1958
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1881

About Clinton Davisson

Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." Davisson (crater) Clinton Davisson on Nobelprize.org Bloomington native won Nobel Prize in physics - Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois newspaper). Davisson continued to work at Western Electric until 1925, when he joined the Technical Staff of the newly-founded Bell Telephone Laboratories. After graduating, Davisson became an instructor in the Department of Physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).

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The world when Clinton Davisson was born

Clinton Davisson was born in 1881. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlinePresident Garfield assassinated
  • Technology milestoneFirst electric power plant (Godalming, England)
  • World population~1.41B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames A. Garfield / Chester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population51.0M

1881 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Clinton Davisson's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18812026
Population51.0M341 million

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