George Paget Thomson
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1931, by Maurice de Broglie
- Physics 1932, by Maurice de Broglie
- Physics 1933, by Maurice de Broglie
- Physics 1934, by Erwin Schrödinger
- Physics 1937, by Gregori Aminoff
- Physics 1937, by Carl Benedicks
- Physics 1937, by Gustaf Ising
- Physics 1937, by Nils Zeilon
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1938, nominee: Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1949, nominee: John Douglas Cockcroft
- Physics 1951, nominee: John Douglas Cockcroft
- Physics 1955, nominee: Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
- Physics 1962, nominee: George Dixon Rochester
- Physics 1966, nominee: Abdus Salam
- Physics 1967, nominee: Abdus Salam
- Physics 1968, nominee: Abdus Salam
- Physics 1970, nominee: Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
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