George Paget Thomson
Physicist, Academic
1892 – 1975
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Who was George Paget Thomson?
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.
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- Born
- May 3, 1892
Cambridge - Also known as
- Sir George Thomson
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Employment
- University of Cambridge
- Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
- University of Aberdeen
- Scientific Advisor, Air Ministry
(1942 - 1945)
- Died
- Sep 10, 1975
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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