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George Paget Thomson

1892–1975

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George Paget Thomson (1892–1975) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his experimental discovery of electron diffraction, confirming the wave nature of electrons. He was the son of J.J. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron, and later in life became a prominent advocate for nuclear energy and a critic of nuclear weapons proliferation.

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The Atom (1930)
The Wave Nature of the Electron (1937)
The Foreseeable Future (1955)
The Inspiration of Science (1961)
J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory (1964)

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