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Thomson, George Paget (1892–1975)

George Thomson was a British physicist and the son of Joseph Thomson. He was awarded, with Clinton J. Davisson, the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that electrons can undergo diffraction, thus demonstrating their wave nature. Thomson fired fast electrons through thin gold leaf to obtain a diffraction pattern. See also wave-particle duality.

 

George Paget Thomson