George Paget Thomson was born on 3 May 1892 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was married to Kathleen Buchanan Smith. He died on 10 September 1975 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 jointly with Clinton Joseph Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals".