Who awarded George Paget Thomson his Nobel Prize?
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George Paget Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the prize for his work on the diffraction of electrons by crystals, which helped to prove the wave-particle duality of matter.
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