Davisson–Germer experiment

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

The Davisson–Germer experiment was conducted from 1923 to 1927 by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Western Electric (later Bell Labs). Electrons, scattered by the surface of a crystal of nickel metal, displayed a diffraction pattern.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Davisson–Germer experiment”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jim.henderson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.