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Sir George Thomson
Thomson in 1937
Born
(1892-05-03)3 May 1892
Cambridge, England
Died
10 September 1975(1975-09-10) (aged 83)
Cambridge, England
Nationality
British
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for
Electron diffraction
Spouse
Kathleen Buchanan Smith
Children
2 sons, 2 daughters
Awards
Howard N. Potts Medal (1932) Nobel Prize in Physics (1937) Hughes Medal (1939) Royal Medal (1949) Faraday Medal (1960)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
University of Aberdeen
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Imperial College London
Academic advisors
J. J. Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS[1] (/ˈtɒmsən/; 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.[2][3]
^Moon, P. B. (1977). "George Paget Thomson 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 23: 529–556. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0020.
^"George Paget Thomson". Le Prix Nobel. the Nobel Foundation. 1937. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
^"Thomson, Sir George Paget". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
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