"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"

Clinton Joseph Davisson

1/2 of prize
USA
born 1881, died 1958
CA - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
AA - Western Electric Company (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
WA - Western Electric Company (Bell Labs)

 

Sir George Paget Thomson

1/2 of prize
UK
born 1892, died 1975
CA - Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK
AA - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
WA - University of Aberdeen

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1937
• Electron Diffraction (with simulations)
• Waves vs. Particles 
• Electrons in Atoms - Waves or Particles?

Sir George Paget Thomson:

• Photo of Thomson from American Institute of Physics 
• Photo from Univ. of Aberdeen of Thomson's apparatus
• Sir George Paget Thomson was the son of Sir Joseph John Thomson, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906.