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direct experimental testimony (Finally, to balance completely the discovery of Compton which gave direct experimental testimony to the corpuscular character of radiation, it was not long afterward, in 1927, that two men in the research laboratories of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Davisson and Germer, announced that electrons, particles par excellence, when shot through a crystal grating, exhibited interference patterns, the crucial test for the possession of wave characteristics – from "From Galileo to the Nuclear Age: An Introduction to Physics" (by Harvey Brace Lemon)) Tamerlane) |
