is the electron's momentum. Personal life While doing his graduate work at Princeton, Davisson met his wife and life companion Charlotte Sara Richardson, who was visiting her brother, Professor Richardson. Richardson is the sister-in-law of Oswald Veblen, a prominent mathematician. Clinton and Charlotte Davisson (d.1984) had four children, Owen Davisson, James Davisson, the American physicist Richard Davisson, and Elizabeth Davisson. Death and legacy Davisson died on February 1, 1958, at the age of 76. An impact crater on the far side of the moon was named after Davisson in 1970 by the IAU. See also References External links Bloomington native won Nobel Prize in physics - Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois newspaper) 1881 births 1958 deaths 20th-century American physicists Experimental physicists American Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Physics Scientists at Bell Labs People from Bloomington, Illinois Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois) alumni