International Conference on the Quantum Interactions of the Free Electron: J. J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron
AUG 01, 1956
Sir George P. Thomson, FRS (above), is Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. The son of Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir George shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in physics with C. J. Davisson for the discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals. The present paper is the text of his after‐dinner address at the Electron Physics Conference Banquet.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060059
May I say that I am particularly glad and happy that my father’s hundredth anniversary of his birth should be celebrated here in this way. My father had a great affection for America at all times, and of all the places in America, he best knew and loved Baltimore; and that it should be the University of Maryland which is honouring him in this way is to me a very great pleasure, as it would have been to him.
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George P. Thomson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, UK.
© 1956 American Institute of Physics
