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Did George Thomson ever win the Nobel Prize?

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Yes, George Paget Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937, along with Clinton Davisson, for their work on the wave nature of electrons. Thomson's work involved passing electrons through a thin metal foil and observing the interference patterns that were produced. This work provided strong evidence for the wave-particle duality of matter, which was a key concept in the development of quantum mechanics.
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