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    Lester Halbert Germer (October 10, 1896 – October 3, 1971) was an American physicist. With Clinton Davisson, he proved the wave-particle duality of matter...
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    The Davisson–Germer experiment was a 1923–1927 experiment by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Western Electric (later Bell Labs), in which electrons...
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  • Amos E. Germer (1862–1935), American politician Edmund Germer (1901–1987), German inventor Karl Germer (1885–1962), German occultist Lester Germer (1896–1971)...
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    Lester Germer performed an experiment showing that electrons were diffracted at the surface of a crystal of nickel. This celebrated Davisson–Germer experiment...
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  • or surface physics". The prize is named after Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer, who first measured electron diffraction, and as of 2007 it is valued...
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  • apertures gave the movie shown. In 1927 at Bell Labs, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired slow-moving electrons at a crystalline nickel target. The diffracted...
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    particles. For example, the electrons used by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in 1927, accelerated by 54 V, had a wavelength of 0.167 nm, which was...
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  • theoretical models to experiment. In 1927 at Bell Labs, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired slow-moving electrons at a crystalline nickel target which showed...
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    later metal films, and by American physicists Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer by the reflection of electrons from a crystal of nickel. Alexander Reid...
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  • discovering) the existence of the neutrino. 1927 Clinton Davisson, Lester Germer, and George Paget Thomson confirm the wavelike nature of electrons 1927...
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