PHYSICAL REVIEW FOCUS 12 May 2006 http://focus.aps.org/
David Ehrenstein, American Physical Society
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LANDMARKS: ELECTRONS ACT LIKE WAVES
APS has put the entire Physical Review archive online, back to 1893.
Focus Landmarks feature important papers from the archive.
A 1927 paper in the Physical Review demonstrated that particles of
matter can act like waves, just as light waves sometimes behave
like particles. Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer of the Bell
Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey found that electrons scatter
from a crystal in the same way that x rays do. The work began as a
result of a laboratory accident and ultimately earned Davisson a
Nobel Prize.
(C. Davisson and L. H. Germer, Phys. Rev. 30, 705)
Link to the paper: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v30/p705
COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v17/st17
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