Word: germer
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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...
John H. Dodge, East Lansing, Mich., George Dunton, Jr., Santa Ana, Calif., Robert E. Elsas, Columbus, Ohio, Leonard A. Erickson, Grand Forks, N. Dak., Leonard C. Farr, Marshfield, Ore., Douglas LaV. Fortney, Bowden, N. Dak., Gordon L. Furth, Berkeley, Calif., Robert F. Germer, Olney, III., William W. Haynes, Berkeley, Calif...