George Paget Thomson blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: George Paget Thomson 1892-1975 Nobel prize for physics 1937 joint winner for demonstrating electrons to have wave-like properties in experiments conducted at the University of Aberdeen Pioneering work undertaken in this building from 1922-1930 with local technician C. G. Fraser Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.

Sir George Paget Thomson was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, through experiments conducted at the University of Aberdeen in the 1920s, demonstrated that electrons exhibit wave-like properties, thereby confirming the principle of wave-particle duality.