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Modern electronics rests with Bloomington-Normal's only Nobel Prize winner

Modern electronics rests with Bloomington-Normal's only Nobel Prize winner

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McLean County has one Nobel prize winner — but oh what a one! Modern electronics rests upon Clinton Davisson’s physics experiments bombarding a block of crystalized nickel with electrons. Davisson and his colleague at Bell labs, L.H. Germer, measured the angle at which the electrons were scattered by the nickel.

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