Word: davisson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern theory of wave mechanics, which holds that units of matter (e.g., electrons and protons) behave partly like particles, partly like waves, rests on a revolutionary electron experiment performed by Clinton J. Davisson and Lester H. Germer in 1927. Their experiment, done with crystals, was analogous to shooting a beam of electrons at a barrier punctured by two holes very close together...
...navigator of a Flying Fortress, Captain Richard Davisson has 24 missions over Europe to his credit, has returned from all unharmed. Last week, in an air-base privy, Fortressman Davisson gave the chain a hurried jerk, brought down a Royal Doulton tank on his unhelmeted head, suffered an angry head gash. From barracks comrades came unsympathetic jeers, no recommendations for the Purple Heart...
...thick overcast had opened up just in time to let Arpaia do his act. Even that miracle would have been wasted except for the quick efficiency of the bombardier, his teammate Navigator Dick Davisson, and their pilot, Captain Vernon Iverson. Arpaia, Davisson and Iverson are one of the crack teams that guide the massed Fortress flights over Europe. Such teams are used sparingly; on them depends the mission's success, for under the new bombing system only the bombardier of the lead Fortress and a few others scattered through the formation do the actual sighting; at their signal...
...Reims raid Navigator Davisson had plotted his course by dead reckoning; he and Pilot Iverson had only one objective-to bring their close-packed bomber formation to a predetermined spot called the I.P. (Initial Point). Then the bombardier took over...
...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...