When was George Paget Thomson born?
3 May 1892
10 September 1892
3 March 1892
10 December 1892
Answer
George Paget Thomson was born on 3 May 1892 in Cambridge, England. He was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his work on the diffraction of electrons by crystals. Thomson's work helped to prove the wave-particle duality of matter, which is the idea that matter can behave as both a particle and a wave.
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