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Clinton Joseph Davisson (Bloomington, 22 de Outubro de 1881 — Charlottesville, 1 de Fevereiro de 1958) foi um físico estadunidense.
Recebeu em 1937 o Nobel de Física, pela verificação experimental da difração do elétron por cristais.
Nascido em Bloomington, Illinois, Davidsson se formou na Bloomington High School, e na Universidade de Chicago. Após a recomendação de Robert A. Millikan, em 1905 Davisson foi contratado pela Universidade de Princeton como Instrutor de Física. Ele recebeu seu Ph.D. em física de Princeton em 1911. Na universidade de Princeton fez doutorado com Owen Richardson. No mesmo ano ele se casou com a irmã de Richardson, Charlotte.1 2
Clinton Davisson e Charlotte teve quatro filhos, incluindo o físico americano Richard Davisson.
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1875 — 1900 |
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1881: William Woodnut Griscom · 1885: Cyprien Chabot e Frederick Siemens · 1886: Patrick Bernard Delany, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Ott & Brewer, Pratt & Whitney, R. H. Ramsay e Liberty Walkup · 1887: Charles F. Albert, Hugo Bilgram, Alfred H. Cowles, Eugene H. Cowles e Thomas Shaw · 1889: Edward Alfred Cowper, Ottmar Mergenthaler, T. Hart Robertson e George Frederick Simonds · 1890: J. B. Hammond, Herman Hollerith e Mayer Hayes & Co.
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1891: Stockton Bates, James H. Bevington, Bradley Allen Fiske, Tinius Olsen, Edwin F. Shaw, Samuel Matthews Vauclain e George M. Von Culin · 1892: Philip H. Holmes e Henry M. Howe · 1893: Clifford H. Batchellor, Frederic Eugene Ives, George E. Marks e Paul von Jankó · 1894: Nikola Tesla · 1895: Henry M. Howe, James Peckover e Lester Allan Pelton · 1896: Patrick Bernard Delany e Tolbert Lanston · 1897: Hamilton Castner, Elisha Gray, Charles Francis Jenkins, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Joseph Wilckes · 1898: Wilbur Olin Atwater, Thomas Corscaden, Clemens Hirschel, Henri Moissan e Edward Bennett Rosa · 1900: American Cotton Company, Louis Edward Levy, Pencoyd Iron Works, Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos e Carl Auer von Welsbach
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1901: Rudolf Diesel, John S. Forbes, L. M. Haupt, Mason and Hamlin e A. G. Waterhouse · 1902: C. E. Acker, Frederick Taylor e Maunsel White · 1903: G. H. Clam, J. L. Ferrell, Wilson Lindsley Gill, Victor Goldschmidt e Frank J. Sprague · 1904: James Mapes Dodge, Wilson Lindsley Gill, Hans Goldschmidt, L. E. Levy, L.D. Lovekin, A. E. Outerbridge, Jr. e J. C. Parker · 1905: Elisha Gray e M. I. Pupin · 1906: American Paper Bottle Company e William J. Hammer · 1907: Baldwin Locomotive Works, J. L. Borsch, J. Allen Heany, F. Philips e Edward R. Taylor · 1908: Romeyn Beck Hough e Anatole Mallet · 1909: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Wolfgang Gaede, James Gayley, Auguste e Louis Lumière, George Owen Squier, Benjamin Talbot,
W. V. Turner, Underwood Typewriter Company, Alexis Vernasz e H. A. Wise Wood · 1910: Automatic Electric Company, John A. Brashear, Peter Cooper Hewitt, John Fritz, Robert Hadfield, Ernest Rutherford,
Joseph John Thomson, Edward Weston e Harvey W. Wiley
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1912: Alexander Graham Bell, William Crookes, Alfred Noble, Edward Morley, Albert Abraham Michelson, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Samuel Wesley Stratton, Elihu Thomson e Adolf von Baeyer · 1913: Emil Berliner, Emile Fischer, William Ramsay, Isham Randolph, John William Strutt, Albert Sauveur e Charles Proteus Steinmetz · 1914: J. M. von Eder, Carl von Linde, Edgar Fahs Smith e Irmãos Wright · 1915: Michael Joseph Owens · 1916: American Telephone & Telegraph, Byron E. Eldred e Robert Gans · 1917: Edwin Fitch Northrup · 1918: Isaac Newton Lewis · 1920: William Le Roy Emmet
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Nobel de Física (1901 — 2012) |
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen • Hendrik Lorentz e Pieter Zeeman • Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie e Marie Curie • John William Strutt • Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard • Joseph John Thomson • Albert Abraham Michelson • Gabriel Lippmann • Guglielmo Marconi e Karl Ferdinand Braun • Johannes Diderik van der Waals • Wilhelm Wien • Nils Gustaf Dalén • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes • Max von Laue • William Henry Bragg e William Lawrence Bragg • Charles Glover Barkla • Max Planck • Johannes Stark • Charles Edouard Guillaume • Albert Einstein • Niels Bohr • Robert Andrews Millikan • Karl Siegbahn • James Franck e Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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| 1926 — 1950 |
Jean Baptiste Perrin • Arthur Holly Compton e Charles Thomson Rees Wilson • Owen Willans Richardson • Louis de Broglie • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman • Werner Karl Heisenberg • Erwin Schrödinger e Paul Dirac • James Chadwick • Victor Franz Hess e Carl David Anderson • Clinton Davisson e George Paget Thomson • Enrico Fermi • Ernest Orlando Lawrence • Otto Stern • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Wolfgang Pauli • Percy Williams Bridgman • Edward Victor Appleton • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett • Hideki Yukawa • Cecil Frank Powell
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| 1951 — 1975 |
John Douglas Cockcroft e Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton • Felix Bloch e Edward Mills Purcell • Frits Zernike • Max Born e Walther Bothe • Willis Eugene Lamb e Polykarp Kusch • William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen e Walter Houser Brattain • Chen Ning Yang e Tsung-Dao Lee • Pavel Cherenkov, Illia Mikhailovich Frank e Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm • Emilio Gino Segrè e Owen Chamberlain • Donald Arthur Glaser • Robert Hofstadter e Rudolf Mössbauer • Lev Landau • Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer e J. Hans D. Jensen • Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Basov e Aleksandr Prokhorov • Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger e Richard Feynman • Alfred Kastler • Hans Bethe • Luis Walter Alvarez • Murray Gell-Mann • Hannes Alfvén e Louis Eugène Félix Néel • Dennis Gabor • John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper e John Robert Schrieffer • Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever e Brian David Josephson • Martin Ryle e Antony Hewish • Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson e Leo James Rainwater
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Burton Richter e Samuel Chao Chung Ting • Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott e John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias e Robert Woodrow Wilson • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam e Steven Weinberg • James Watson Cronin e Val Logsdon Fitch • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow e Kai Siegbahn • Kenneth G. Wilson • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar e William Alfred Fowler • Carlo Rubbia e Simon van der Meer • Klaus von Klitzing • Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig e Heinrich Rohrer • Johannes Georg Bednorz e Karl Alexander Müller • Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz e Jack Steinberger • Norman Foster Ramsey, Hans Georg Dehmelt e Wolfgang Paul • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall e Richard Edward Taylor • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes • Georges Charpak • Russell Alan Hulse e Joseph Hooton Taylor • Bertram Neville Brockhouse e Clifford Glenwood Shull • Martin Lewis Perl e Frederick Reines • David Morris Lee, Douglas Dean Osheroff e Robert Coleman Richardson • Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji e William Daniel Phillips • Robert Betts Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer e Daniel Chee Tsui • Gerardus 't Hooft e Martinus J. G. Veltman • Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer e Jack Kilby
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Eric Allin Cornell, Carl Wieman e Wolfgang Ketterle • Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba e Riccardo Giacconi • Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg e Anthony Leggett • David Gross, Hugh David Politzer e Frank Wilczek • Roy Glauber, John Lewis Hall e Theodor Hänsch • John Mather e George Fitzgerald Smoot III • Albert Fert e Peter Grünberg • Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi e Toshihide Masukawa • Charles Kao, Willard Boyle e George Smith • Andre Geim e Konstantin Novoselov • Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess e Brian Schmidt • Serge Haroche e David Wineland
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Nota: Para Clinton Davisson (escritor e jornalista), veja Clinton Davisson Fialho.
Estadunidense
Nobel de Física (1937)
