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...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
Time capsules are as popular now as they were on July 4, 1876. In Seward, Neb., a discount hardware store owner named Harold Davisson last year interred a 1975 Chevrolet in a crypt of concrete and steel. This year he is adding a blue Kawasaki motorcycle. Also in the vault are a Teflon frying pan, a bolt of polyester fabric, a zipper, a pair of bikini panties and a man's aquamarine leisure suit...
Claude W. Bernard of Currier House and Bellmore, N. Y.; Charles T. V. Davisson of Adams House and Cambridge; Kenneth H. Haas of Dunster House andNew York City: Daniel I. Kleinberger of Adams House and Silver Spring, Maryland; Jeffrey M, Levine of Leverett House and Albany, N.Y.; Timothy W. McKeithan of Currier House and Bolivia...
...Essay. My only comment is that you fail to mention the inhibiting fear that besets many of the singles who "devoutly wish that they weren't." The fear that we will join the apparently numerous ranks of marrieds who wish, equally devoutly, that they hadn't. ROGER DAVISSON Stanford, Calif...
...made the university a great seat of learning?" but an authorized spokesman for the Academic Senate made it clear that the faculty did not want Communists on the faculty. "We have patiently tried to settle this bugaboo of repudiation, but Regent Neylan has been unwilling to listen," Professor Malcolm Davisson stated, and Professor Wendell M. Stanley, Nobel prize-winning bio-chemist remarked, "Anyone who accepts dictates from Moscow has no more chance of getting on with the faculty here than Mickey Mouse...