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Birth of George Paget Thomson

3 May 1892

English physicist (1892–1975). George Paget Thomson was born on 3 May 1892 in what is now the United Kingdom. George Paget Thomson is remembered as a physicist, nuclear physicist and university teacher, a citizen of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Positions held included military officer.

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