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George Paget Thomson

1892 - 1975

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Sir George Paget Thomson (; 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Paget Thomson has received more than 475,811 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). George Paget Thomson is the 140th most popular physicist (down from 114th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Germany (down from 361st 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

Among physicists, George Paget Thomson ranks 140 out of 851. Before him are Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and Rudolf Mössbauer. After him are Donald A. Glaser, Auguste Piccard, Kip Thorne, Jacques Charles, Georges Charpak, and Pavel Cherenkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, George Paget Thomson ranks 26. Before him are Martin Niemöller, Arthur Honegger, J. Paul Getty, Mátyás Rákosi, Stefan Banach, and Gregor Strasser. After him are Ernst Lubitsch, William P. Murphy, Shirō Ishii, Erwin Panofsky, Amanullah Khan, and Erhard Milch. Among people deceased in 1975, George Paget Thomson ranks 18. Before him are Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint-John Perse, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. After him are Josemaría Escrivá, Robert Robinson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Antonín Novotný, Graham Hill, and Jimmy Hoffa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Paget Thomson ranks 458 out of 7,253. Before him are Till Lindemann (1963), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Roland Freisler (1893), Adam of Bremen (1100), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929). After him are Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Friedrich Fromm (1888), Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667), and Anselm Kiefer (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, George Paget Thomson ranks 23. Before him are James Franck (1882), Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), Walther Bothe (1891), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929). After him are Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Hans Geiger (1882), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922).

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