George Paget Thomson

George Paget Thomson, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1892-05-03 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: English physicist (1892–1975)

Biography

Sir George Paget Thomson was an English physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937

Awarded on: 1937-11-11

"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"

Affiliations:

  • London UniversityLondon, United Kingdom