Editing Clinton Davisson (section)

{{Short description|American physicist (1881–1958)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Clinton Davisson
| image             = Clinton Davisson.jpg
| caption           = Davisson in 1937
| birth_name        = Clinton Joseph Davisson
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1881|10|22}}
| birth_place       = [[Bloomington, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1958|02|01|1881|10|22}}
| death_place       = [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], U.S.
| alma_mater        = {{Plain list|
* [[University of Chicago]] ([[BSc]], 1908)
* [[Princeton University]] ([[PhD]], 1911)
}}
| known_for         = [[Davisson–Germer experiment]] (1927)
| spouse            = {{Marriage|Charlotte Richardson|1911}}
| children          = 4, including [[Richard Davisson|Richard]]
| awards            = {{Plain list|
* [[Comstock Prize in Physics]] (1928)<ref name=Comstock>{{cite web|title=Comstock Prize in Physics|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=13 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195326/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|archive-date=29 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] (1931)
* [[Hughes Medal]] (1935)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1937)
}}
| fields            = [[Physics]]
| work_institutions = {{Plain list|
* [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] (1911–1917)
* [[Western Electric Company]] (1917–1946)
* [[University of Virginia]] (1946–1954)
}}
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Owen Richardson]]
}}

'''Clinton Joseph Davisson''' (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American [[physicist]] who shared the 1937 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[George Paget Thomson]] "for their experimental discovery of the [[diffraction]] of [[electron]]s by [[crystal]]s".