Joe has no friends what-so-ever Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (May 3, 1892 – September 10, 1975) was a Nobel-Prize-winning, English physicist who discovered the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... Physicists working in a government lab A physicist is a scientist who is a practitioner of physics. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

George Thomson was born in Cambridge, the son of Nobel Prize winning physicist J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, the daughter of the Professor of Medicine at Cambridge. Thomson read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he joined the Queen's Regiment of Infantry. After a brief service in France, he worked on aerodynamics at Farnborough and elsewhere. Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. ... Euclid, a famous Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry, is shown here in detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First World War, also known as... This article is about the branch of Physics. ... Farnborough Airfield (previously called RAE Farnborough) is an airfield near Farnborough, Hampshire in the United Kingdom. ...

In 1924, Thomson married Kathleen Buchanan Smith, daughter of the Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Kathleen died in 1941. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... George Adam Smith (October 19, 1856 - 1942), Scottish divine, was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then principal of the Doveton College. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...

After briefly serving in the First World War Thomson became a Fellow at Cambridge and then moved to the University of Aberdeen. George Thomson was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 for his work in Aberdeen in discovering the wave-like properties of the electron. The prize was shared with Clinton Joseph Davisson who had made the same discovery independently. Whereas his father had seen the electron as a particle (and won his Nobel Prize in the process), Thomson demonstrated that it could be diffracted like a wave, a discovery proving the principle of wave-particle duality which had first been posited by Louis-Victor de Broglie in the 1920s as what is often dubbed the de Broglie hypothesis. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... The University of Aberdeen is one of the ancient universities of Scotland. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Properties The electron is a lightweight fundamental subatomic particle that carries a negative electric charge. ... Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 October 1881–1 February 1958), was an American physicist. ... A particle is Look up Particle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In particle physics, a basic unit of matter or energy. ... Diffraction is the apparent bending and spreading of waves when they meet an obstruction. ... In physics, wave-particle duality holds that light and matter exhibit properties of both waves and of particles. ... Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... In physics, the de Broglie hypothesis is the statement that all matter has a wave-like nature (wave-particle duality). ...

In 1930 he was appointed Professor at Imperial College London. In the late 1930s and during the Second World War Thomson specialised in nuclear physics, concentrating on practical military applications. In particular Thomson was the chairman of the crucial MAUD Committee in 1940-1941 that concluded that an atomic bomb was feasible. In later life he continued this work on nuclear energy but also wrote works on aerodynamics and the value of science in society. 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Imperial College London is a prestigious British academic institution focussing on science, engineering and medicine, complemented by a business school. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. ... The Maud Committee was the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... This article is about the branch of Physics. ...

Thomson stayed at Imperial College until 1952, when he became Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1964, the college honoured his tenure with the George Thomson Building, an outstanding work of modernist architecture on the college's Leckhampton campus. Full name The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge Motto There is a toast, Floreat antiqua domus (May the old house flourish), from which the colleges nickname, Old House, is derived Named after The citys Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The George Thomson Building and Leckhampton House Henry Moore sculpture at Leckhampton Leckhampton is the residential site for graduate students of Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge. ...

Sources

• http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1937/thomson-bio.html, Nobel Laureate biography
• http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/591_82.html, Britannica biography
• http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp64938, Portraits of Kathleen Buchanan Thomson
• http://ntmf.mf.wau.nl/quantum/pers.html#T, Wageningen University biography (Dutch)