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Along with the work of Pauling, possibly America’s greatest contributions to the new science of quantum mechanics came from Bell Lab scientists Leslie Germer and Clinton Davisson. Upon graduating from Cornell with honors in 1917, Germer accepted a research post at Western Electric.
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Richard K. Gehrenbeck, “Electron Diffraction: Fifty Years Ago,” Physics Today, January 1978 (no primary source given).
See Jeremy Bernstein, Prophet of Energy: Hans Bethe (E. P. Dutton, New York, 1981), pp. 18–19.
Lester H. Germer, “The Structure of Crystal Surfaces,” Scientific American, June 1963.
Notebook entry of February 5, 1925.
C. J. Davisson, “Are Electrons Waves?” Franklin Institute Journal, 1928, 105:597–623.
Richard K. Gehrenbeck, “Electron Diffraction: Fifty Years Ago,” Physics Today, January 1978.
Lester H. Germer, “The Structure of Crystal Surfaces,” Scientific American, June 1963.
For an excellent discussion of this, see Katherine Russell Sopka, Quantum Physics in America (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1985), Vol. 10, p. 87.
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Serafini, A. (1993). Davisson and Germer and Quantum Physics. In: Legends in Their Own Time. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6090-0_10
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