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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1930s (56) 1937 (7) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1890s (65) 1892 (8) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) Cambridge (2) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1970s (66) 1975 (7) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Cambridge (26) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) G (55) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) T (34) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) G (35) George (18) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name S-Z (21) T (4) Thomson (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 46 (13) 30. Father - Son Winners 30. Father - Son Winners Father son (12) Thomson (2) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) United Kingdom (64) London (19) London University (7) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) Long-term academic staff (44) Short-term academic staff (54) London (82) Imperial College London (20) Long-term academic staff (10) North America (529) United States (521) Northeastern states (374) New York (216) Ithaca (58) Cornell University (58) Short-term academic staff (26) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, western (50) United Kingdom (27) Cambridge (2) The Perse School (2) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) B (132) Bakerian Lecture (30) E-F (439) F (394) Faraday Medal (15) Faraday Medal and Prize (4) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) G-H (389) H (196) Howard N. Potts Medal (4) Hughes Medal (29) K-L (297) K (173) Knight Bachelor (22) Q-Z (398) R (196) Royal Medal (50) complete name: George Paget Thomson nobel prize: physics award year: 1937 together with: Clinton Davisson prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 was awarded jointly to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: George family name: Thomson occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: nuclear scientist field of work: physics work location: Imperial College London, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom description: George Paget Thomson was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. pronunciation: (/ˈtɒmsən/) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1937/summary/> date birth: 1892 date death: 1975 usual name: George Thomson
