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    Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (/ˈtɒmsən/; 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery...
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    1883. In 1890, Thomson married Rose Elisabeth Paget at the church of St. Mary the Less. Rose, who was the daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, a physician...
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    of visible light. In 1927, Davisson and Germer and, independently George Paget Thomson and his research student Alexander Reid demonstrated that electrons...
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  • academic Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 1922–2013), British peer Sir George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), English...
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    Davisson–Germer experiment. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same...
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  • Hans Bethe showed in his more complete analysis. At the same time George Paget Thomson and his student Alexander Reid independently demonstrated the same...
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    researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson for the discovery of electron diffraction, which helped lay the foundation...
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  • 1927, matter waves were first experimentally confirmed to occur in George Paget Thomson and Alexander Reid's diffraction experiment and the Davisson–Germer...
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    were inconclusive. At Cambridge, Nobel Prize in Physics laureates George Paget Thomson and William Lawrence Bragg wanted the government to take urgent action...
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    Richardson (Physics, 1928) Sir James Chadwick (Physics, 1935) Sir George Paget Thomson (Physics, 1937) Sir Edward Victor Appleton (Physics, 1947) Patrick...
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  • social worker and politician George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), English physicist and Nobel laureate George Derwent Thomson (1903–1987), English Marxist...
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    Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, FRS (22 December 1809 – 16 January 1892) was an English physician and academic. The seventh son of Samuel Paget and his...
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    Prize in 1906 was won by J. J. Thomson for showing that electrons are particles, and in 1937 by his son, George Paget Thomson, for showing that they also...
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    parallel slits thereby creating interference patterns. In 1927, George Paget Thomson and Alexander Reid discovered the interference effect was produced...
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    thin films and later metal films by George Paget Thomson and Alexander Reid in 1927. (Alexander Reid, who was Thomson's graduate student, performed the first...
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  • Nevill Mott I. I. Rabi Norman Ramsey Mike Seaton John C. Slater George Paget Thomson Particle physics Isomeric shift Atomism Bransden, BH; Joachain, CJ...
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    Loewi Eugene O'Neill Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1937 Clinton Davisson; George Paget Thomson Norman Haworth; Paul Karrer Albert Szent-Györgyi Roger Martin du...
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    son of Sir George Paget Thomson and the grandson of Sir J. J. Thomson, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. His son is Sir Adam Thomson. Crusader...
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  • 1889) Ethel Griffies, British actress (b. 1878) September 10 – Sir George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) September 15 –...
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  • 1969) 1891 – Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher (d. 1963) 1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) 1892...
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    experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" George Paget Thomson (1892–1975)  United Kingdom 1938 Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)  Kingdom...
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  • French firm Thomson SA G. Thomson (1760–1806), English geologist who worked in Italy and discovered the Widmanstätten figures George Paget Thomson (1892–1975)...
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  • solenoid was an early 1946 design for a fusion power device designed by George Paget Thomson and Moses Blackman of Imperial College London. It proposed to confine...
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  • at Bell Labs measured electrons scattered from Ni metal surfaces. George Paget Thomson and Alexander Reid at Cambridge University scattered electrons through...
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    Scientific Survey of Air Warfare (CSSAW), who in turn passed it on to George Paget Thomson, to whom the CSSAW had delegated responsibility for uranium research...
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  • theory was fully explained by Hans Bethe. A similar experiment by George Paget Thomson and Alexander Reid, firing electrons at thin celluloid foils and...
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    Harvard Kennedy School. Thomson is the eldest son of Sir John Thomson, also a diplomat. He is the grandson of Sir George Paget Thomson and the great-grandson...
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    Waldemar Borgquist 1958 Sir Gordon Radley 1959 Luigi Emanueli 1960 Sir George Paget Thomson 1961 Julius Adams Stratton 1962 Sir Basil Schonland 1963 Pierre Marie...
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  • or Medicine, 1945 Alexander Fleming, Physiology or Medicine, 1945 George Paget Thomson, Physics, 1937 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Peace...
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    Pentland Hills, at Leeds for William Henry Bragg and at Aberdeen for George Paget Thomson. In 2015, Peter Higgs unveiled his own plaque, installed on the building...
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