George Paget Thomson
Also known as Sir George Thomson, George Thomson, Sir George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
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George Paget Thomson was an English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for demonstrating that electrons behave like waves, a discovery that helped confirm a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. His work was important because it provided experimental evidence that particles of matter have wave-like properties, which challenged the traditional view of how the physical world works and became central to modern physics.
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Sir George Paget Thomson (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) 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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1892 births1975 deaths20th-century British physicistsAcademics of Imperial College LondonAcademics of the University of AberdeenAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeAnglo-ScotsBritish Army personnel of World War IBritish experimental physicistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesBritish nuclear physicists