Richard Davisson

Professor Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29 1922 — June 15 2004) was an American physicist.

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December 29 - 1922 - June 15 - 2004 - American - Physicist

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Davisson was the son of Clinton Davisson, a Nobel laureate and his wife Charlotte. His maternal uncle, Sir Owen Richardson was also a Nobel laureate.

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Clinton Davisson - Owen Richardson

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During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. At Los Alamos, he was recruited by Professor Robert Williams (scientist) to teach at the University of Washington.

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World War II - Manhattan Project - Special Engineer Detachment - Los Alamos - Robert Williams (scientist) - University of Washington

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Davisson was a member of the Washington team which designed a system for detecting a subatomic particle known as a muon. After the U.S. government pulled the funding on the Superconducting Supercollider project, the team was recruited by CERN to provide the system to Europe's state-of-the-art particle accelerator.

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Subatomic particle - Muon - CERN - Particle accelerator

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Davisson retired in 2000, at the age of 77.

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