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George Paget Thomson

English physicist (1892–1975)

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Lived 1892–1975, aged 83United Kingdom
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  • Fame4.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • United Kingdom rank#233
  • Scientists rank#211
  • Wikipedia2.1K
  • Wikipedia
    78 languages
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  • Rank in United Kingdom
    #233
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  • Era
    1892–1975
    Aged 83
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Updated 2026-05-29

British physicist who proved electrons behave like waves—earning a 1937 Nobel Prize for it. His father also won a Nobel for electron work, making them one of science's rare parent-child duo laureates.

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Scientists
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United Kingdom
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#233
Category rank
#211
Last updated
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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 won the Nobel for showing the electron is a particle, the younger for showing it is a wave.

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#211
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Born
May 3, 1892
Died
September 10, 1975
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