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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937

"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
Clinton Joseph Davisson George Paget Thomson
Clinton Joseph Davisson George Paget Thomson
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
Bell Telephone Laboratories
New York, NY, USA		 London University
London, United Kingdom
b. 1881
d. 1958		 b. 1892
d. 1975
 
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