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== Personal life == While doing his graduate work at Princeton, Davisson met his wife and life companion Charlotte Sara Richardson, who was visiting her brother, Professor Richardson.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/davisson-clinton.pdf|title = Biographical Memoirs}}</ref> Richardson is the sister-in-law of [[Oswald Veblen]], a prominent mathematician.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/davisson-clinton.pdf|title = Memoirs}}</ref> Clinton and Charlotte Davisson (d.1984) had four children,<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BDNSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UHYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7209,2168191 |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=news.google.com}}</ref> Owen Davisson, James Davisson, the American physicist [[Richard Davisson]], and Elizabeth Davisson.
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