[Phys-L] Re: Davisson & Germer and Nobel Prize

[Vern Lindberg <vwlsps@RIT.EDU>]

Recipients must be living. That may explain the omission of Reid.

V. Lindberg

On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:56 PM, Michael Edmiston wrote:

> Can anyone shed any light on why Germer was passed over for the Nobel
> Prize?  And/or why did Thomson share the prize with Davisson even
> though
> Thomson published after Davisson and Germer, plus "Thomson's work"
> might
> have been mostly done by Reid, but Reid died in a motorcycle accident
> about the time the paper was published?
>
> Was something funny going on, such as G.P. Thomson being the son of J.J
> Thomson?  Or was the omission of Germer (and Reid?) just one of the
> things that happens when people have to decide to whom to give awards?
>
>
> Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
> Professor of Physics and Chemistry
> Bluffton University
> Bluffton, OH 45817
> (419)-358-3270
> edmiston@bluffton.edu
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