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Was George Paget Thomson part of the team that discovered the atomic bomb?

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George Paget Thomson was not part of the team that discovered the atomic bomb. He was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his work on the diffraction of electrons by crystals. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhattan Project, a secret research and development project that was led by the United States during World War II.
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