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George Paget Thomson was born on May 3, 1892, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire . He held citizenship in both the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom . Thomson was a physicist and attended Trinity College, Cambridge . His father was J. J. Thomson and his mother was Rose Elisabeth Paget .
George Paget Thomson was known for his work on electron diffraction in the field of physics . He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution . Throughout his career, he worked in the United Kingdom . His doctoral advisor was John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , while Ishrat Hussain Usmani was one of his doctoral students .
Thomson had a son, John Thomson, who became a diplomat . George Paget Thomson passed away on September 10, 1975, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire .
