1983: American Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements. 1993: Toni Morrison receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her ...

Davisson won the Nobel Prize in physics. Born in Bloomington in 1881, Davisson’s father Joseph was a housepainter who worked for A.T. Fagerburg, a longtime Bloomington paint and wallpaper store.

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