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Nobel Prize for Electron Diffraction

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1937

Clinton Joseph DavissonDecember 1937

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering electron diffraction from crystals.

Names involved

Clinton Joseph Davisson

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