Where was George Paget Thomson born?
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George Paget Thomson was born in London, England on May 3, 1892. He was the son of J. J. Thomson, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron. George Paget Thomson also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his work on the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
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