The Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics is an annual prize that has been awarded by the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

since 1965. The recipient is chosen for "''outstanding work in

atomic physics Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Atomic physics typically refers to the study of atomic structure and the interaction between atoms. It is primarily concerned wit ...

surface physics Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid– liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid–gas interfaces. It includes the f ...

''". The prize is named after

Clinton Davisson Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment. Davisson shared the Nobel Priz ...

and

Lester Germer Lester Halbert Germer (October 10, 1896 – October 3, 1971) was an American physicist. With Clinton Davisson, he proved the wave-particle duality of matter in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which was important to the development of the elect ...

, who first measured

electron diffraction Electron diffraction refers to the bending of electron beams around atomic structures. This behaviour, typical for waves, is applicable to electrons due to the wave–particle duality stating that electrons behave as both particles and waves. Si ...

, and as of 2007 it is valued at $5,000.

Recipients

* 2022:

David S. Weiss David S. Weiss is an American comedy writer. He has written for Dennis Miller Live, CNBC's "Dennis Miller", The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. In 2005, he ran unsuccessfully for the Writers Guild of America boar ...

* 2021: Michael F. Crommie * 2020: Klaas Bergmann * 2019: Randall M. Feenstra * 2018: * 2017: and Stephen Kevan * 2016: Randall G. Hulet * 2015: and * 2014: Nora Berrah * 2013:

Geraldine L. Richmond Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17, 1953 in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemist and Physical chemistry, physical chemist who is serving as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the US Department of Energy. Richmond was confirmed to ...

* 2012:

Jean Dalibard Jean Dalibard (born 8 December 1958) is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of ...

* 2011: Joachim Stohr * 2010: Chris H. Greene * 2009: and Krishnan Raghavachari * 2008: * 2007: * 2006: * 2005:

Ernst G. Bauer Ernst G. Bauer (born 1928) is a German-American physicist known for his studies in the field of surface science, thin film growth and nucleation mechanisms and the invention in 1962 of the Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM). In the early 1990s ...

* 2004: * 2003: Rudolf M. Tromp * 2002:

Gerald Gabrielse Gerald Gabrielse is an American physicist. He is the Board of Trustees Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at Northwestern University, and Emeritus George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard Univers ...

* 2001: Donald M. Eigler * 2000:

William Happer William Happer (born July 27, 1939) is an American physicist who has specialized in the study of atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, and a long-term memb ...

* 1999: Steven Gwon Sheng Louie * 1998: Sheldon Datz * 1997: Jerry D. Tersoff * 1996: * 1995: Max G. Lagally * 1994: Carl Weiman '' ic' * 1993: * 1992: * 1991: * 1990:

David Wineland David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trap ...

* 1989: * 1988:

John L. Hall John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy. Biography Born ...

* 1987: * 1986:

Daniel Kleppner Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and his research interest ...

* 1985: * 1984: and * 1983: E. W. Plummer * 1982: Llewellyn H. Thomas * 1981:

Robert Gomer Robert Gomer (24 March 1924, in Vienna, Austria – 12 December 2016) was an Austrian scientist known for his research on field electron emission and field ionization, and his role as an adviser to the United States government. He was educated a ...

* 1980:

Alexander Dalgarno Alexander Dalgarno FRS (5 January 1928 – 9 April 2015) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Biography Alexander Dalgarno was born in London in 1928, and spent his childhood there. He was ed ...

* 1979: and * 1978: Vernon Hughes * 1977:

Walter Kohn Walter Kohn (; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the unde ...

and * 1976:

Ugo Fano Ugo Fano (July 28, 1912 – February 13, 2001) was an Italian American physicist, notable for contributions to theoretical physics. Biography Ugo Fano was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Turin, Italy. His father was Gino Fano, a professo ...

* 1975: and

Homer D. Hagstrum Homer Dupre Hagstrum (March 11, 1915 – September 7, 1994) was an American physicist who specialized in surface physics. Born in St Paul, Minnesota he gained a BA degree in 1936, an MS in 1939 and a PhD in physics in 1940 at the University of Mi ...

* 1974:

Norman Ramsey Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the const ...

* 1972:

Erwin Wilhelm Müller Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or ''Mueller'') (June 13, 1911 – May 17, 1977) was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his st ...

* 1970:

Hans Dehmelt Hans Georg Dehmelt (; 9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-h ...

* 1967:

Horace Richard Crane Horace Richard Crane (November 4, 1907 – April 19, 2007) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment ...

* 1965: Source:

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