George Paget Thomson
May 3, 1892 –September 10, 1975
Physicist, Nuclear physicist, University teacher
Lived 83 years
- Born in
- Cambridge
- Passed away in
- Cambridge
Sir George Paget Thomson (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. J. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in 1906 "for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases". It has been said that the elder Thomson won the Nobel for showing the electron is a particle, the younger for showing it is a wave.
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Howard N. Potts Medal, Hughes Medal, Faraday Medal, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Knight Bachelor, Guthrie Lecture, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Education: Trinity College
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