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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...
...Morning Prayers-Harold D. Germer, Assistant Professor, Ottawa University, Kansas. Appleton Chapel...
Died. Adolph Germer, 85, German-born labor pioneer, who started in the Illinois coal fields at age eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
...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...