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George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson 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 w…
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science · British physicist (1892–1975) · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · also George Paget Thomson, Sir George Thomson, George Thomson, Sir George Paget Thomson, Thomson
Born 3 May 1892 · Died 10 September 1975 · Q133846
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1975· 1 entry
Died 1975-09-10.
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
The college honoured his tenure with the George Thomson Building, a work of modernist architecture on the college's Leckhampton campus
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1960· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1960).
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1955· 1 entry
Their grandson, Adam Thomson (born 1955), also became a senior diplomat, serving as High Commissioner to Pakistan (2010–2013) and as Permanent Representative to NATO (2014–2016).
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1949· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1949).
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1948· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1948).
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1948).
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1939· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1939).
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1937· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1937).
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Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in discovering the wave-like properties of matter
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1932· 1 entry
Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1932).
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1930· 1 entry
Was appointed Professor of Physics at Imperial College London
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1929· 1 entry
Thomson became a non-resident lecturer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
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1924· 1 entry
Thomson married Kathleen Buchanan Smith, the daughter of George Adam Smith, who served as Principal of the University of Aberdeen (1909–1935)
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1922· 1 entry
Was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland
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1919· 1 entry
Thomson became a Fellow of and a lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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1913· 1 entry
Went to the Cavendish Laboratory to do research under his father, until the outbreak of World War I the following year, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
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1906· 1 entry
"for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-05-03.
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