Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937, announced November 11, 1937. Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson, “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”. Clinton Davisson: born 1881, Bloomington, IL, USA. George Paget Thomson: born 1892, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).