Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1881, Oct. 22 | Born, Bloomington, Ill. |
| 1908 | B.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1911 | Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Married Charlotte Sara Richardson (died 1984) |
| 1911-1917 | Instructor in physics, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| 1917-1946 | Member of technical staff, Western Electric Co. (later Bell Telephone Laboratories) |
| 1927 | Discovered with others the diffraction of electrons by crystals |
| 1928 | Awarded Comstock Prize in physics |
| 1937 | Shared Nobel Prize in physics with G. P. Thomson for discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction |
| 1947-1949 | Visiting professor of physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. |
| 1958, Feb. 1 | Died, Charlottesville, Va. |