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Da′vis•son-Ger′mer exper′iment
(dā′və sən gûr′mər),USA pronunciation [Physics.]
- Physicsan experiment that verified the wave properties of matter by showing that a beam of electrons is diffracted by a crystal at an angle dependent upon the velocity of the electrons.
- named after C. J. Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer (1896–1971), American physicists