Electron Diffraction Image
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content: Sir George Paget Thomson (1892-1975) was British physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize for his experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals. This glass slide—an electron diffraction image of celluloid, taken by Thomson and his student Alexander Reid—is a copy, made at the Smithsonian, of an original borrowed from Thomson, for an exhibit on “35 Years With Electrons As Waves.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George Paget Thomson, “Early Work in Election Diffraction,” American Journal of Physics 29 (1961): 1-15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.321595.01
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content: 251393
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content: 321595.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lantern slide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: 3 glass slides: 4 in x 5 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: 4 glass slides: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: 1 glass slide: 3 1/4 in x 4 in; 8.255 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in museum storage box: 5 in x 6 in x 2 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 15.24 cm x 6.6675 cm