George Paget Thomson


George Thomson
Thomson in 1937
Born(1892-05-03)3 May 1892
Cambridge, England
Died10 September 1975(1975-09-10) (aged 83)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forElectron diffraction
SpouseKathleen Buchanan Smith
Children2 sons, 2 daughters
AwardsHoward N. Potts Medal (1932)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1937)
Hughes Medal (1939)
Royal Medal (1949)
Faraday Medal (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Academic advisorsJ. 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "George Paget Thomson". Le Prix Nobel. the Nobel Foundation. 1937. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  3. ^ "Thomson, Sir George Paget". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.

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