George Paget Thomson

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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