biography
| name: |
Germer, Lester (Halbert)
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pronunciation:
[germer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1971)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Columbia University, then joined the research staff of the Western Electric Co (1917–53). He worked with Clinton Davisson on experiments that demonstrated the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1927), confirming the wave nature of electrons proposed by Louis-Victor de Broglie. |
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