George Paget Thomson

Sir
George Thomson
FRS FRSE
Sir George Thomson FRS FRSE
	Thomson in 1937
43rd Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
	In office; 1952–1962
Preceded by	Sir William Spens
Succeeded by	Sir Frank Godbould Lee
Personal details
Born	3 May 1892; Cambridge, England, UKGBI
Died	10 September 1975 (aged 83); Cambridge, England, UK
Spouse	Kathleen Buchanan Smith (m. 1924; died 1941)
Children	4, including John
Parent	J. J. Thomson (father);
Relatives	George Edward Paget (grandfather); George Adam Smith ; (father-in-law); Adam Thomson (grandson);
Education	The Perse School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Electron diffraction
Awards	Howard N. Potts Medal (1932); Nobel Prize in Physics (1937); Hughes Medal (1939); Royal Medal (1949); Faraday Medal (1960);
Scientific career
Fields	Wave optics
Institutions	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1919–1922); University of Aberdeen ; (1922–1930); Imperial College London (1930–1952);
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson
Notable students	Gertrude Goldhaber

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.