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George Paget Thomson

1892 - 1975

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Sir George Paget Thomson (; 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was an English physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Paget Thomson is the 150th most popular physicist (down from 140th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Germany (up from 458th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Physicist.

George Paget Thomson was a British physicist who is most famous for his work with electrons. Thomson was the first person to measure the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons, and he developed the first mass spectrograph.

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Among physicists, George Paget Thomson ranks 150 out of 851. Before him are Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, and Nicolaas Bloembergen. After him are Walter Houser Brattain, Henry Moseley, Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, and Jean-Baptiste Biot.

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Among people born in 1892, George Paget Thomson ranks 24. Before him are Arthur Compton, Arthur Honegger, Theodor Eicke, Ferdinand Schörner, Engelbert Dollfuss, and Oliver Hardy. After him are Jack L. Warner, Mátyás Rákosi, William P. Murphy, Stefan Banach, Gregor Strasser, and Erwin Panofsky. Among people deceased in 1975, George Paget Thomson ranks 18. Before him are Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Edward Tatum, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Arnold J. Toynbee. After him are Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, Paul Keres, Jimmy Hoffa, and Eisaku Satō.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Paget Thomson ranks 377 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), and Franz Halder (1884). After him are Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Pope Victor II (1018), Regiomontanus (1436), Joseph Beuys (1921), Thomas à Kempis (1380), and Moses Mendelssohn (1729).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, George Paget Thomson ranks 23. Before him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929). After him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), and Herbert Kroemer (1928).

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