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SWEDEN - NOVEMBER 11: Medal for the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to British physicist George Paget Thomson (1892-1975) in 1937. The design shows a relief profile of Alfred Nobel, designed and signed by Erik Lindberg in 1902. The prize was awarded by the Nobel Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and shared by Thomson with Clinton Joseph Davisson USA, �for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals�. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

SWEDEN - NOVEMBER 11:  Medal for the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to British physicist George Paget Thomson (1892-1975) in 1937. The design shows a relief profile of Alfred Nobel, designed and signed by Erik Lindberg in 1902. The prize was awarded by the Nobel Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and shared by Thomson with Clinton Joseph Davisson USA, �for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals�.  (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)