Editing Clinton Davisson (section)

== Early life and education ==
Davisson was born in [[Bloomington, Illinois]] on October 22, 1881.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Clinton Davisson: Facts |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1937/davisson/facts/ |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=The Nobel Prize}}</ref> He graduated from [[Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois)|Bloomington High School]] in 1902, and entered the [[University of Chicago]] on scholarship. Upon the recommendation of [[Robert A. Millikan]], in 1905 Davisson was hired by [[Princeton University]] as Instructor of Physics. He completed the requirements for his B.S. degree from Chicago in 1908, mainly by working in the summers. While teaching at Princeton, he did doctoral thesis research with [[Owen Richardson]]. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1911; in the same year he married Richardson's sister, Charlotte.<ref name="Kelly">{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Mervin J. |year=1962 |chapter=Davisson1881–1958 |chapter-url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/davisson-clinton.pdf |title=Biographical Memoirs, Vol. XXXVI |publisher=US National Academy of Sciences |pages=51–84 |access-date=2012-12-14 |oclc=20727455}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author=Nobel Foundation | title=Clinton Joseph Davisson: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 | url=http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1937/davisson-bio.html | work=Les Prix Nobel | year=1937 | access-date=2007-09-17}}</ref>