George Paget Thomson - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1937
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George Paget Thomson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1937
for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
Together with: Clinton Davisson
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
5/3/1892
place of birth
Cambridge
date of death
9/10/1975
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
83 years
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/15/1930
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
employer
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Aberdeen
doctoral student
  • Bruce Sween Liley
  • Ishrat Hussain Usmani
position held
  • military officer
educated at
  • Trinity College
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