Question: What is the birth date of this American scientist , a Nobel laureate known for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons ?

text: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London
Laureates

The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributors to the field of economics. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the winners of the first Nobel Prizes were given 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. In 2008, the winners were awarded a prize amount of 10,000,000 SEK. The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. As of 2009, there have been 15 Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London. Imperial College considers laureates who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty as affiliated laureates. Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who attended the Royal School of Mines from 1881 to 1883, was the first Imperial College-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929. One Nobel Prize was shared by two Imperial College laureates; Ernst Boris Chain and Alexander Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Year Laureate Relation Category Rationale
1929 Frederick Gowland Hopkins ( shared with Christiaan Eijkman ) Student , Royal School of Mines , 1881-1883 Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins
1937 George Paget Thomson ( shared with Clinton Davisson ) Professor of Physics 1930-1952 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1955 Physics for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
1945 Ernst Boris Chain ( shared with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey ) Professor of Bacteriology , 1928-1948 , St Mary 's Hospital Medical School Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
1945 Alexander Fleming ( shared with Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Florey ) Professor of Bacteriology , 1928-1948 , St Mary 's Hospital Medical School Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
1948 Patrick Blackett , Baron Blackett Professor of Physics , 1953-65 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1967 Physics for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method , and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation
1956 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ( shared with Nikolay Semenov ) Senior Research Fellow Imperial College , 1964-1967 Chemistry for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions
1963 Andrew Huxley ( shared with John Carew Eccles and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ) Fellow of Imperial College , 1980 Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane
1967 George Porter ( shared with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ) Visiting Professor , Department of Biology 1978-2002 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1987 Chemistry for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions , effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy
1969 Derek Barton ( shared with Odd Hassel ) Professor of Organic Chemistry , 1957-1978 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1980 ; Emeritus Professor , 1978 Chemistry for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry
1971 Dennis Gabor Professor of Electron Physics , 1958-67 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1970 Physics for his invention and development of the holographic method
1972 Rodney Robert Porter ( shared with Gerald Edelman ) Pfizer Professor of Immunology , ; St Mary 's Hospital Medical School 1960-1967 Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
1973 Geoffrey Wilkinson ( shared with Ernst Otto Fischer ) Professor of Inorganic Chemistry , 1956-1996 ; Emeritus Professor 1988 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1993 Chemistry for their pioneering work , performed independently , on the chemistry of the organometallic , so called sandwich compounds
1979 Abdus Salam ( shared with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg ) Professor of Theoretical Physics , 1957-1996 ; Emeritus Professor , 1993 ; Fellow of Imperial College , 1994 Physics for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles , including , inter alia , the prediction of the weak neutral current